Walter Lewin

Hendrik Walter Gustav Lewin ( born January 29, 1936) is a Dutch physicist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Lewin earned in 1965 his Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the TU Delft. Right after he went as a post-doctoral researcher at MIT to explore astronomical X-ray radiation. He remains to this day at this university and went on the field of X-ray astronomy a name.

Special recognition was given Lewin through his philosophical physics lectures. Many of these were broadcast on U.S. television in years. About MIT OpenCourseWare you can make free video recordings of the lectures on Newtonian mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and retrieve oscillations and waves.

Publication

• Together with Warren Goldstein: For the Love of Physics. Simon & Schuster, New York City, 2011. ISBN 978-1-439108277. German: It works. From pleasure to finally understand physics. Translated from English by Helmut Reuter. Knaus Verlag, Munich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8135-0453-8.