Francis Sears

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Francis Weston Sears (1898 — 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT and is best known for writing a widely-used introductory physics textbook (often referred to as Sears and Zemansky).

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] Books

• Sears, Francis, Mark Zemansky, et al (1991). College Physics, 7th Edition, Addison Wesley.

• Sears, Francis W. (1935). An Introduction to Optics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

• Sears, Francis W. (1950). An Introduction to Thermodynamics, the Kinetic Theory of Gases and Statistical Mechanics. Addison Wesley.

[edit] See also

• MIT Physics Department