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1939–2024 United States

David Goodstein (April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and served as professor of physics and as Vice-provost at the California Institute of Technology. He wrote several books, including Feynman’s Lost Lecture (1996).

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Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.

The lack of qualified high-school physics teachers in the United States is a notorious (and self-perpetuating) problem. ...[C]ombating that problem was... one of the central goals of the TMU project.

Making "The Mechanical Universe (1988)

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.

States of Matter (1974)

Many of the so-called crossover teachers, who were teaching physics but weren’t trained ...were home economics teachers.

David L. Goodstein... Interviewed (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Goodstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.