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Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Atomic Clock Precision to GPS, Has Died

6 months agoby NaOH

"He also helped to create an advanced physics course for M.I.T. freshmen with more than a rudimentary knowledge of the subject. He and Robert J. Kolenkow wrote a 2013 textbook for the course, “An Introduction to Mechanics.”"

I used Kleppner/Kolenkow's intro to mechanics (copyright 1973) in 1993 or so, not at MIT. Seems 2013 is referring to the 2nd edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kleppner#Books Maybe the 1st edition was created for the "mechanics for masochists" MIT course.

6 months agoby kwoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kleppner

https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/daniel-kleppner/

6 months agoby toomuchtodo

"The first scientists to succeed, in 1995, were Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman at JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), a research institute in Colorado." incredible underhanded dig from the NYT (against the rest of the Boulder physics dept)

6 months agoby andbberger

http://archive.today/n6xxF

6 months agoby NaOH