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name: Daniel Fleisch
about: Prof. Dan Fleisch short biographyDan Fleisch is a Professor in the Department of Physicsat Wittenberg University, where he specializes inelectromagnetics and space physics. He is the author ofthe internationally best-selling book A Student’s Guide toMaxwell’s Equations, published by CambridgeUniversity Press in January 2008 and already in its 12th printing. This book has beentranslated into Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Dr. Fleisch is also the author of AStudent’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors, published by Cambridge Press in 2011, and AStudent’s Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy, to be published in September of 2013.He is currently under contract with Cambridge Press for A Student’s Guide to Waves,which will be published in 2014. Fleis Prof. Dan Fleisch short biographyDan Fleisch is a Professor in the Department of Physicsat Wittenberg University, where he specializes inelectromagnetics and space physics. He is the author ofthe internationally best-selling book A Student’s Guide toMaxwell’s Equations, published by CambridgeUniversity Press in January 2008 and already in its 12th printing. This book has beentranslated into Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Dr. Fleisch is also the author of AStudent’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors, published by Cambridge Press in 2011, and AStudent’s Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy, to be published in September of 2013.He is currently under contract with Cambridge Press for A Student’s Guide to Waves,which will be published in 2014. Fleisch is also the co-author with the late Prof. JohnKraus of The Ohio State University of the McGraw-Hill textbook Electromagnetics withApplications.Prof. Fleisch has published technical articles in the IEEE Transactions, The Journal ofAtmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, and Microwave Journal, and has presented morethan a dozen professional papers on topics related to high-speed microwaveinstrumentation and radar cross-section measurement. He has been a regular contributorof science commentary to PBS station WYSO of Yellow Springs, and in 2006 heappeared in the documentary "The Dayton Codebreakers" shown on PublicTelevision. In 2009 he was the first U.S. citizen to receive an Arthur Award from StuartMcLean of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.Prof. Fleisch was named Outstanding Faculty Member at the Wittenberg Greekscholarship awards in 2000, and in 2002 he won the Omicron Delta Kappa award forExcellence in Teaching. In 2003 and 2005 he was recognized for Faculty Excellence andInnovation by the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE), and in2004 he received Wittenberg’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highestfaculty award.In November of 2010 Prof. Fleisch was named the Ohio Professor of the Year by theCarnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.In August of 2013 Prof. Fleisch was named one of the Top 25 Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Professors in Ohio.Fleisch received his B.S. in Physics from Georgetown University in 1974 and his M.S.and Ph.D. in Space Physics and Astronomy from Rice University in 1976 and 1980,respectively. ...more