Nationality British Notable awards Oersted Medal | Name Anthony French Alma mater Cambridge | |
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Born November 19, 1920 (age 103)
Brighton, England ( 1920-11-19 ) Institutions Manhattan Project
Cambridge
South Carolina
MIT Residence United Kingdom, United States of America Fields Nuclear physics, Physics education Books Vibrations and Waves, An Introduction to Quantu, Newtonian Mechanics, Special Relativity, Principles of Modern Physics | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
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Anthony Philip French (November 19, 1920 – February 3, 2017) was a British professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Brighton, England. French was a graduate of Cambridge University, receiving his B.A. in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1948, both in physics. In 1942, he began working on the British effort to build an atomic bomb (codenamed Tube Alloys) at the Cavendish Laboratory. By 1944, Tube Alloys had been merged with the American Manhattan Project and he was sent to Los Alamos.
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When the war ended, he returned to the United Kingdom, where he spent a couple of years at the newly formed Atomic Energy Research Establishment. He later joined the faculty at Cambridge, where he conducted his research at Cavendish and became a Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1955, French arrived at the University of South Carolina, where he was made chairman of the physics department. He left South Carolina in 1962 to take a faculty position in the MIT Physics Department, where he remained until his death. French's main interest was undergraduate physics education. He was chairman of the Commission on Physics Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1975-1981) and president of the American Association of Physics Teachers (1985-1986). He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.