Francis Sears

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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 ^[1] and is best known for co-writing a widely-used introductory physics textbook with Mark Zemansky, often referred to as Sears and Zemansky.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Books 3 References 4 See also

[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. 

• Francis W. Sears (1975). Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 020106894X. 

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

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• MIT Physics Department