- Anthony French
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name = Anthony Philip French
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birth_date = 1920
birth_place =Brighton, England
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field = Physics Education
work_institution =Manhattan Project
Cambridge
South CarolinaMIT
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website = [http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/anthony_french.html]
footnotes =Anthony Philip French (born in 1920 in
Brighton, England ) is an emeritus professor of physics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology .Prof. French is a graduate of
Cambridge University , receiving his B.A. in 1942 and Ph. D. in 1948, both in physics. In 1942, he began working on the British effort to build an atomic bomb (codenamedTube Alloys ) at theCavendish Laboratory . By 1944, Tube Alloys had been merged with the AmericanManhattan Project and he was sent to Los Alamos.When the War ended, he returned to the UK, where he spent a couple of years at the newly-formed
Atomic Energy Research Establishment . He later joined the faculty at Cambridge, where he conducted his research at Cavendish and became a Fellow and Director of Natural Studies atPembroke College, Cambridge .In 1955, Prof. French arrived at the
University of South Carolina , where he was made chairman of the physics department. He left South Carolina in 1962 to take a faculty position at MIT, where he has been ever since.Prof. French's main interest is undergraduate physics education. He was chairman of the Commission on Physics Education of the
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1975-1981) and president of theAmerican Association of Physics Teachers (1985-1986). He is also a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society .Books
* cite book
title=Introduction to Quantum Physics
first=A.P.
last=French
publisher=W.W. Norton & Company
year=1978* cite book
title=Newtonian Mechanics
first= A.P.
last=French
publisher=W.W. Norton & Company
year=1971* cite book
title=Special Relativity
first=A.P.
last=French
publisher=W.W. Norton & Company
year=1968* cite book
title=Vibrations and Waves
first= A.P.
last=French
publisher=W.W. Norton & Company
year=1971Awards and honors
* 1980 University Medal of the Charles University, Prague
* 1988 Bragg Medal of the Institute of Physics, London
* 1989Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers
* 1991 Named Professor Emeritus at MIT
* 1993 Melba Newell Phillips Award of the American Association of Physics Teachersee also
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MIT Physics Department External links
* [http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/anthony_french.html Anthony French's website at MIT]
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