Francis Sears

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 and is best known for co-authoring a frequently tapped into introductory physics textbook with Mark Zemansky, often referred to as Sears and Zemansky. He was a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving as its president in 1956.

Awards

• 1961 — Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers

Books

• Sears, Francis; Mark Zemansky, et al. (1991). College Physics (7th Edition ed.). 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. 

• Sears, Francis W. (1950). Mechanics, heat and sound. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Addison Wesley.
• Sears, Francis W. (1946). "Electricity and Magnetism". Reading, Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley

See also

• MIT Physics Department