Background
French, Anthony Philip was born on November 19, 1920 in Brighton, England. Son of Sydney James and Elizabeth Margaret (Hart) French. came to the United States, 1955.
physicist university professor
French, Anthony Philip was born on November 19, 1920 in Brighton, England. Son of Sydney James and Elizabeth Margaret (Hart) French. came to the United States, 1955.
Bachelor with honors, Cambridge (England) University, 1942; Master of Arts, Cambridge (England) University, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1948; Doctor of Science (honorary), Allegheny College, 1989.
French is a graduate of Cambridge University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1942 and Doctor of Philosophy 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.
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department, where he has been ever since.
French"s main interest is 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 is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society. 1980 University Medal of the Charles University, Prague.
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Fellow American Physical Society, Institute Physics (England). Member American Association Physics Teachers (president 1985-1986, Oersted medal 1989, Melba Newell Phillips award1993), Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.
Married Naomi Mary Livesay, October 6, 1945 (deceased 2001). Married Dorothy Ada Jensen, April 30, 2002. Children: Martin Charles, Gillian Ruth.