Walter Lewin taught the three core classes in physics at MIT for more than thirty years and made major discoveries in the area of X-ray astronomy. His physics lectures have been the subject of great acclaim, including a 60 Minutes feature, stories in... Read full bio
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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. What counts is not what you cover but what you uncover
Q. What is your motto or maxim?A. What counts is not what you cover but what you uncoverQ. What are your 5 favorite songs?A. My Lord (Edith Piaf), Marieke (Jacques Brel), Suzanne (Leonard Cohen), Ruhe sanfte, sanfte Ruh'(J.S. Bach) St Mathhew's Passion, Bess You is my woman now (Porgy and Bess) George GershwinQ. What’s your greatest fear?A. Nuclear War and Genocide (as an example six million Jews were murdered by the Germans in the Holocaust)Q. What’s your greatest flaw?A. ImpatienceQ. What’s your fantasy profession?A. Professor of Physics at Harvard (hahaha)Learn more about Walter Lewin
...a penchant for explaining her topics in clear, exciting ways. In the same vein, former MIT physics professor Walter Lewin is introducing kids to the wonder of physics through For the Love of Physics.Hands-On Excitement: Engineers Ken Denmead and William...
...our own." Which might be one good reason to read about it. For the Love of Physics Walter Lewin (Free Press, 271 pp.) $15 Why is it that our weigh fluctuates slightly when going up or down an elevator? Physicist and MIT professor Walter Lewin leaps to...
...professor seemed engaging. Surprisingly, I was drawn to a physics course at MIT taught by the legendary professor Walter Lewin, author of the recent book For the Love of Physics (Free Press). He was interesting and entertaining in his presentation, and...
...For the Love of Physics Loading... For the Love of Physics, by Walter Lewin, with Warren Goldstein (Simon & Schuster, 302 pages, $29.99 hardcover) — If you follow Walter Lewin’s advice, you may never finish his book. In Chapter 1, in...
...MIT's Walter Lewin takes the average person on a fascinating trip through physics and his adventures in the classroom. For the Love of Physics From the End of the Rainbow to the...
...Everyone knows that rainbows appear after a storm. But in his new book, Lewin reveals nature’s more unusual rainbows hiding in spray kicked up by ocean waves, in fog swirling around headlights, even in glass particles floating above construction sites....
...a way of seeing our world, revealing territories that would otherwise be hidden to us…” The principle author Walter Lewin is an astrophysicist who teaches core physics courses at M.I.T. His co-author is Warren Goldstein, chair of the history...
...our own." Which might be one good reason to read about it. For the Love of Physics Walter Lewin (Free Press, 271 pp.) $15 Why is it that our weigh fluctuates slightly when going up or down an elevator? Physicist and MIT professor Walter Lewin leaps to...
...Over four decades at MIT, Walter Lewin got undergraduates excited about physics. Now his lectures are reaching millions of students around the world. March/April 2012 Credit: Christopher Churchill See videos of Walter Lewin teaching, drawing dotted...
...signings, including, Dr. Lisa Randall, leading particle physicist in the world researching the God Particle at CERN; Dr. Walter Lewin, internationally renowned MIT physics professor whose work is seen around the world with YouTube. Several Book Fair...
...signings, including, Dr. Lisa Randall, leading particle physicist in the world researching the God Particle at CERN; Dr. Walter Lewin, internationally renowned MIT physics professor whose work is seen around the world with YouTube. Several Book Fair...
...signings, including, Dr. Lisa Randall, leading particle physicist in the world researching the God Particle at CERN; Dr. Walter Lewin, internationally renowned MIT physics professor whose work is seen around the world with YouTube. Several Book Fair...
...signings, including, Dr. Lisa Randall, leading particle physicist in the world researching the God Particle at CERN; Dr. Walter Lewin, internationally renowned MIT physics professor whose work is seen around the world with YouTube. Several Book Fair...