Edwin F. Taylor

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Edwin Floriman Taylor (born June 22, 1931 in Oberlin , Ohio ) is an American physicist.

Taylor studied at Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in physics in 1954 and a doctorate in 1958. From 1956 he was an assistant professor at Wesleyan University . From 1964 he was initially visiting associate professor at the Education Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He later became a professor there and, from 1979, director of films for science education (Education Video Resources). In 1991 he retired from MIT and accepted a research professorship in relativity at Boston University .

He is known for his achievements in physics education, for which he received the Oersted Medal in 1998 . He has authored several books on relativity with John Archibald Wheeler , including Spacetime Physics . In teaching quantum mechanics, he supported Feynman's path integral concept, among other things, because of its connection to the principle of the smallest action in mechanics.

He also wrote interactive teaching software (with students Paul Horwitz and Slavormir Tuleja) that has won awards.

From 1973 to 1978 he was editor of the American Journal of Physics .

Fonts

  • with John Archibald Wheeler Spacetime Physics: an introduction to Special Relativity , Freeman, 2nd edition 1992 (first 1966)
  • with John Archibald Wheeler Exploring black holes: an introduction to General Relativity , Addison-Wesley / Longman 2000
  • with Anthony Philip French Introduction to quantum physics , Norton 1978
  • Introductory Mechanics , Wiley 1963

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ He reports on it in Anatomy of a collaboration , in John F. Klauder Magic without magic , Freeman 1972
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Edwin F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Edwin Floriman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlin , Ohio