Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 from Cornell University on Partial Differential Approximants and Applications to Statistical Mechanics.
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He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 from Cornell University on Partial Differential Approximants and Applications to Statistical Mechanics.
He is author of several books on theoretical physics. Styer obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1977, majoring in physics. Subsequently, he worked at Rutgers University until 1985 as Postdoctoral Fellow.
He started working at Oberlin College in the physics department in 1985, became full professor in 1998, and was awarded the John and Marianne Schiffer Professorship in physics in 2007.
He worked as visiting faculty at Case Western Reserve University in fall 1988, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder in fall 1991, and he is a reviewer for numerous physics journals. From 1997 to 1999 he was associate editor of the American Journal of Physics.