Anthony French

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Anthony Philip French (born November 19, 1920 in Brighton - † February 3, 2017 ) was a British physicist , known for his work on physics didactics .

French studied at Cambridge University ( bachelor's degree in 1942), where he received his doctorate in 1948 . During the Second World War he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory on the British atomic bomb project (Tube Alloy Project) and from 1944 in the USA on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos as part of the British mission. Even after the war, he worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Great Britain from 1946 to 1948. He then went back to Cambridge University, where he did research at the Cavendish Laboratory and became a Fellow and Director of Study in Natural Sciences at Pembroke College . In 1955 he went back to the USA, where he became a professor at the University of South Carolina (and head of the physics faculty). From 1962 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1991 to 2017 he was Professor Emeritus there .

French was known for his contributions to the university didactics of physics, including in the form of various books and for his introductory courses in physics at MIT. From 1975 to 1981 he was chairman of the commission for physics teaching of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and 1985/86 president of the American Association of Physics Teachers .

In 1989 he received the Oersted Medal and in 1993 the Melba Newell Phillips Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers , and in 1988 the Bragg Medal from the Institute of Physics . He was a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • Newtonian Mechanics. WWNorton 1971
  • The special theory of relativity - MIT introductory physics course. Vieweg 1971, English original: Special Relativity. WWNorton 1968 (and MIT 1966, emerged from the courses at MIT 1963/64)
  • Vibrations and Waves. WWNorton 1971
  • Editor: Einstein. A centenary volume. Harvard University Press 1979, ISBN 0-674-24230-0
  • Editor with P. Kennedy: Niels Bohr. A centenary volume. Harvard University Press 1987
  • with Edwin F. Taylor Introduction to Quantum Physics , WW Norton 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ legacy.com
personal data
SURNAME French, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES French, Anthony Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2017