Dan Fleisch

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Daniel "Dan" Fleisch is an American physicist who specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. [1] He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Wittenberg University. [2]

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A minor planet is named after him. [3]

Biography

Fleisch earned his B.S. from Georgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University in space physics and astronomy. [4] He has been a professor at Wittenberg University since 1998. [4]

Fleisch has provided science commentary for PBS station WYSO, [5] [6] and in 2006, appeared in the documentary The Dayton Codebreakers. [4]

Writing

Fleisch has authored several textbooks, including A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations [7] (2008) and A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors (2011). [8] [9] His other works include A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy and A Student's Guide to Waves, published in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2020, he published A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger equation. [10] His work has been translated into multiple languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Italian. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Flood, Alison (February 11, 2009). "Author flies to Canada to replace reader's faulty copy of his book" – via The Guardian.
  2. ↑ "Wittenberg to host WittClipse viewing party for campus, activities for solar eclipse". springfield-news-sun.
  3. ↑ "Wittenberg professor has minor planet named after him". springfield-news-sun.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Daniel Fleisch, Ph.D. | Wittenberg University". www.wittenberg.edu.
  5. ↑ "The Planets with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra". WYSO.
  6. ↑ "Springfield Symphony Goes Out of This World With The Planets". WYSO.
  7. ↑ Fleisch, Daniel (January 10, 2008). "A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations". Higher Education from Cambridge University Press.
  8. ↑ Hobson, Peter R. (November 1, 2012). ": Scope: textbook. Level: pre-university, undergraduates, teachers, scientists, engineers" . doi:10.1080/00107514.2012.739651 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ↑ Altenbach, Holm (January 14, 2012). "Book Review: Daniel Fleisch, A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011" . ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik. 92 (1): 40–40. doi:10.1002/zamm.201190027 – via Wiley Online Library.
  10. ↑ Ishak, B. (October 1, 2020). "A student's guide to the Schrödinger equation" . Contemporary Physics. doi:10.1080/00107514.2020.1756917 – via www.tandfonline.com.
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