Francis Sears

Francis Weston Sears (October 1, 1898 – November 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956 [ "Biographical notes", "Journal of the Optical Society of America", 66(12): 1446 ] and is best known for co-writing a widely-used introductory physics textbook with Mark Zemansky, often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky". He was a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving as its president in 1956.

Awards

* 1961 — Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers

Books

* cite book
title=College Physics
first=Francis
last=Sears
coauthors=Mark Zemansky, et al
publisher=Addison Wesley
year=1991
edition=7th Edition

* cite book
title=An Introduction to Optics
first=Francis W.
last=Sears
publisher=MIT Press
location=Cambridge, Massachusetts
year=1935

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* cite book
title=An Introduction to Thermodynamics, the Kinetic Theory of Gases and Statistical Mechanics
first=Francis W.
last=Sears
publisher=Addison Wesley
year=1950

References

ee also

* MIT Physics Department