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Paul G. Hewitt is an American physicist, former boxer, uranium prospector, author, and cartoonist born in Saugus, Massachusetts in 1930. Hewitt lives in both Hilo, Hawaii and St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife.[1]
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In 1964, Hewitt began his teaching career at the City College of San Francisco. In 1980 he began teaching evening courses for the general public at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Hewitt left both the Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses of the University of California, choosing instead to move to Hawaii to teach at the University of Hawaii at their Hilo and Manoa campuses.
During Hewitt's teaching career he began taping his lectures.
In 1987, Hewitt began writing a high-school version of conceptual physics, which was published by Addison–Wesley. Hewitt taught classes on his return to the City College of San Francisco that were videotaped and distributed in a 12-lecture set. Conceptual Physics at the high-school level is now on its third edition and has transferred its publication to Prentice Hall. Conceptual Physics at the college level is now on its tenth edition and is still published by Addison-Wesley. (In 2007 Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall merged; all Hewitt textbooks are now published by Pearson Education.)
Prior to Conceptual Physics, Hewitt co-authored Thinking Physics with Lewis Carroll Epstein, another book using cartoons to illustrate scientific concepts[2]
Hewitt also co-authored Conceptual Physical Science with his daughter Leslie Hewitt, a geologist, and his nephew, John Suchocki, a former chemistry instructor who taught at the Leeward Community College in Oahu, Hawaii and Lee, a former favorite student. Hewitt only released one trade book: Touch This! Conceptual Physics for Everyone.[3] He is now a regular columnist for the magazine The Physics Teacher.