Francis Sears (physicist)

Francis Weston Sears ( October 1, 1898 - November 12, 1975 ) was an American physicist .

After the First World War , Sears was brought to Cambridge (Massachusetts) as a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After 35 years, Sears moved to Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire in 1956 .

The Optical Society of America named Sears a "Fellow" and he was also a very active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers .

Francis Sears died shortly after his 77th birthday on November 12, 1975.

The Debye-Sears effect is named after him .

Works (selection)

• College physics . 7th ed. Addison-Wesley , Reading, Mass. 1991, ISBN 0-201-17285-2 (with Hugh D. Young ).
• Electricity and magnetism . Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. 1979.
• Optics . Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. 1975.
• Thermodynamics. Kinetic theory and statistical thermodynamics . Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. 1986, ISBN 0-201-06894-X (former title An introductiuon of thermodynamics ).

Awards

• 1961: Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers

literature

• "Obituary" . In: Journal of the optical Society of America , Vol. 66 (1976), Issue 12, p. 1446.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zemansky, Mark W .: Francis W. Sears Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Physics Today . 29, No. 2, February 1976, p. 65. bibcode : 1976PhT .... 29b..65Z . doi : 10.1063 / 1.3023329 .