Francis Sears
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Francis Weston Sears (October 1, 1898 – November 12, 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956.[1] At Dartmouth, Sears was the Appleton Professor of Physics.[2][3] He is best known for co-authoring University Physics, an introductory physics textbook, with Mark Zemansky. The book, first published in 1949, is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky", although Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973.
In 1932 he collaborated with Peter Debye in the discovery of what is now called the Debye–Sears effect, the diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves.[4][5]
Sears was a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving as its treasurer from 1950 to 1958, followed by successive one-year terms as president-elect and president.[6] He retired to Norwich, Vermont and died in Hanover, New Hampshire, of a stroke on November 12, 1975.[7][8][6]
Awards
- 1961 — Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers[2][9]
Books
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- Sears, Francis W. (1946). Electricity and Magnetism. Reading, Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley[10]
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- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". 2nd edition, 1953[12][13]
- Sears, Francis W. (1950). Mechanics, heat and sound. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Addison Wesley.
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See also
References
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- ↑ "Biographical notes", Journal of the Optical Society of America, 66(12): 1446
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