| Year |
Name |
Institution |
Address
|
| 2013 |
Harvey Gould |
Clark University |
"New Challenges for Old Physics Departments"
|
| 2012 |
Philip M. Sadler |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
"Separating Facts From Fad: How Our Choices Impact Students' Performance and Persistence in Physics"
|
| 2011 |
Brian Jones |
Colorado State University |
"All I Really Need to Know About Physics Education I Learned in Kindergarten"
|
| 2010 |
Patricia M. Heller |
University of Minnesota |
"Guiding the Future: Developing Research-based Physics Standards"
|
| 2009 |
Arthur Eisenkraft |
University of Massachusetts Boston |
"Physics for All: From Special Needs to Olympiads"
|
| 2008 |
Eric Mazur |
Harvard University |
"The Make-Believe World of Real-World Physics"
|
| 2007 |
David Sokoloff |
University of Oregon |
"Building a New, More Exciting Mouse Trap is Not Enough"
|
| 2006 |
Art Hobson |
University of Arkansas |
"Thoughts on Physics Education for the 21st Century"
|
| 2005 |
John S. Rigden |
Washington University in St. Louis, MO |
"The Mystique of Physics: Relumine the Enlightment"
|
| 2004 |
Kenneth S. Krane |
Oregon State University |
"The Challenges of Teaching Modern Physics"
|
| 2003 |
Fred M. Goldberg |
San Diego State University |
"Research and Development in Physics Education: Focusing on Students' Thinking"
|
| 2002 |
Simon George |
California State University |
"Global Study of the Role of the Laboratory in Physics Educations"
|
| 2001 |
Sallie A. Watkins |
University of Southern Colorado |
"Can "Descriptive" End with "A"?"
|
| 2000 |
Thomas D. Rossing |
Northern Illinois University |
"Beauty in Physics and the Arts"
|
| 1999 |
Alan Van Heuvelen |
The Ohio State University |
"Research About Physics Learning, Linguistics, Our Minds, and the Workplace"
|
| 1998 |
Edward F. Redish |
University of Maryland |
"Building a Science of Teaching Physics: Learning What Works and Why"
|
| 1997 |
David Griffiths |
Reed College |
"Is there a Text in This Class?"
|
| 1996 |
Priscilla W. Laws |
Dickinson College |
|
| 1995 |
Dean Zollman |
Kansas State University |
"Do They Just Sit There? Reflections on Helping Students Learn Physics"
|
| 1994 |
Frederick Reif |
Carnegie-Mellon University |
"Understanding and Teaching Important Scientific Thought Processes"
|
| 1993 |
James A. Minstrell |
Mercer Island High School |
"Creating an Environment for Reconstructing Understanding and Reasoning about the Physical World"
|
| 1992 |
Robert G. Fuller |
University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
"Hypermedia and the Knowing of Physics Standing Upon the Shoulders of Giants"
|
| 1991 |
Don Herbert |
Mr. Wizard Studios |
"Behind the Scenes of Mr. Wizard"
|
| 1990 |
Lillian C. McDermott |
University of Washington |
"What We Teach and What Is Learned Closing the Gap"
|
| 1989 |
Peter Lindenfeld |
Rutgers University |
"The Einsteinization of Physics"
|
| 1988 |
Robert G. Greenler |
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
"Beetles, Bubbles, and Butterflies Iridescence in Nature"
|
| 1987 |
Donald Glenn Ivey |
University of Toronto |
"Educational Television An Oxymoron?"
|
| 1986 |
Mario Iona |
University of Denver |
"Why Johnny Can't Learn Physics from Textbooks I have Known"
|
| 1985 |
James Gerhart |
University of Washington |
"Handling Numbers"
|
| 1984 |
Earl F. Zwicker |
Illinois Institute of Technology |
"Life, Learning, and the Phunomenological [sic] Approach"
|
| 1983 |
Gerald F. Wheeler |
Montana State University |
"The Emerging Telecommunications Network: New Conduit to Learners"
|
| 1982 |
Paul G. Hewitt |
City College of San Francisco |
"The Missing Essential A Conceptual Understanding of Physics"
|
| 1981 |
Albert A. Bartlett |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
"Are We Overlooking Something?"
|
| 1980 |
Thomas D. Miner |
Garden City High School |
"Prides and Prejudices of a Physics Teacher"
|
| 1979 |
Alexander Calandra |
Washington University |
"The Art of Teaching Physics"
|
| 1978 |
Alfred Bork |
University of California at Irvine |
"Interactive Learning"
|
| 1977 |
C. Luther Andrews |
State University of New York at Albany |
"Microwave Optics"
|
| 1976 |
Tung Hon Jeong |
Lake Forest College |
"Holography"
|
| 1975 |
Harold A. Daw |
New Mexico State University |
"Physics Instructional Apparatus and Things"
|
| 1974 |
Harald Jensen |
Lake Forest College |
"A Retired Physics Teacher Reminisces"
|
| 1973 |
Frank Oppenheimer |
The Exploratorium |
"Teaching and Learning"
|
| 1972 |
Arnold A. Strassenburg |
State University of New York at Stony Brook |
"The Evolution of Physics Teaching"
|
| 1971 |
Harry F. Meiners |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
"Problems of Science Education in Underdeveloped Countries"
|
| 1970 |
Franklin Miller, Jr. |
Kenyon College |
"A Long Look at the Short Film"
|
| 1969 |
John M. Fowler |
University of Maryland |
"Content and Process in Physics Teaching"
|
| 1968 |
Alan Holden |
Bell Telephone Laboratories |
"Artistic Invitations to the Study of Physics"
|
| 1967 |
Gerald Holton |
Harvard University |
"Oildrops and Subelectrons"
|
| 1966 |
Alan M. Portis |
University of California, Berkeley |
"Electrons, Photons, and Students"
|
| 1965 |
John G. King |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The Undergraduate Physics Laboratory and Reality"
|
| 1964 |
H. Victor Neher |
California Institute of Technology |
"Millikan: Teacher and Friend"
|
| 1962 |
Paul E. Klopsteg |
Northwestern University |
"The Early Days of the American Association of Physics Teachers"
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