Francis W. Sears
Physicist, Author
1898 – 1975
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Who was Francis W. Sears?
Francis Weston Sears was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956 and is best known for co-authoring University Physics, a highly regarded introductory physics textbook, with Mark 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.
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