Background
Noer, Richard J. was born on July 3, 1937 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rudolf J. and Anita M. (Showerman) Noer.
(Diagrams, mathematics, focused on explaining Newton's the...)
Diagrams, mathematics, focused on explaining Newton's theory of motion and Einstein's conception of space and time. Includes a history of the development of these ideas as astronomy and physics matured, celestial motion, terrestrial motion, Newtonian synthesis, relativity, epilogue.
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Noer, Richard J. was born on July 3, 1937 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rudolf J. and Anita M. (Showerman) Noer.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1963.
Physicist, Atomic Energy Research, Harwell, England, 1963-1964;
assistant professor physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1964-1966;
assistant professor physics, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1966-1968;
associate professor physics, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1968-1972;
professor physics, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1972-1998;
department chair, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1974-1977, 89-92;
Laurence McKinley Gould professor natural science, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, since 1998. Visiting physicist U. Paris, Orsay, France, 1972-1973. Physicist Ames Laboratory, Iowa, summers 1977-1980, 82-84.
Research physicist U. Geneva, 1980-1981, 84-85. Visiting scientist Cornell Univercity, summers 1986, 88-91. Visiting physicist Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Saclay, France, 1992-1993.
(Diagrams, mathematics, focused on explaining Newton's the...)
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Physics Teachers, American Physical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Raymonde Tasset, August 17, 1967. Children– Geoffrey, Catherine.