Prior to his long career with NASA, Dr. Alcorn worked in private industry with North American Rockwell, Perkin Elmer, and IBM. Many of his inventions and innovations while working for those companies were related to semiconductors.
Parallel to his research, Dr. Alcorn has had a distinguished career in teaching. He is a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, and he has been a visiting professor at other institutions.
Dr. Alcorn helped organize the Meyerhoff Program, which supports talented minority Ph.D. candidates in science and math, and served as an original mentor in the program. For seventeen years, he devoted Saturdays to teaching science in a special honors program for inner-city students.
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