"Teachers who make physics boring are criminals" -Walter Lewin

"Teachers who make physics boring are criminals" -Walter Lewin

I wish every physics teacher like him.

If you want to see quick understanding of that lecture, find it here:

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Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin (born January 29, 1936) is a Dutch astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology and was a member of MIT's physics faculty for 43 years beginning in 1966 until his retirement in 2009.

Lewin's contributions in astrophysics include the first discovery of a rotating neutron star through all-sky balloon surveys and research in X-ray detection in investigations through satellites and observatories.

Lewin has received awards for teaching and is known for his lectures on physics and their publication online via YouTube, edX and MIT OpenCourseWare.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION:

Lewin was born to Walter Simon Lewin and Pieternella Johanna van der Tang in 1936 in The Hague, Netherlands. He was a child when Nazi Germany occupied The Netherlands during World War II.[4] His paternal grandparents Gustav and Emma Lewin, who were Jewish, were gassed in Auschwitz in 1942.[5] To protect the family, Lewin's father simply left one day without telling anyone, leaving his mother to raise the children.

AWARDS:
1978 - NASA Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
1984 - Alexander von Humboldt Award
1984 - Guggenheim Fellowship
1984 - MIT Science Council Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1988 - MIT Department of Physics W. Buechner Teaching Prize
1991 - Alexander von Humboldt Award (again)
1997 - NASA Group Achievement Award for the Discovery of the Bursting Pulsar
2003 - MIT Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2011 - first recipient of the Educator Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE)[15]
On April 3, 2012, Lewin was ranked by the Princeton Review among "The Best 300". He was the only MIT faculty member (albeit, retired) to make it to that list.