birth_place birth_date residence article_title name
brighton , england 19 november 1920 united kingdom anthony french
 anthony philip french
anthony french

anthony philip french -lrb- born november 19 , 1920 -rrb- is an emeritus professor of physics at the massachusetts institute of technology .
he was born in brighton , england .
french is a graduate of cambridge university , receiving his b.a. in 1942 and ph. d. in 1948 , both in physics .
in 1942 , he began working on the british effort to build an atomic bomb -lrb- codenamed tube alloys -rrb- at the cavendish laboratory .
by 1944 , tube alloys had been merged with the american manhattan project and he was sent to los alamos .
when the war ended , he returned to the uk , where he spent a couple of years at the newly formed atomic energy research establishment .
he later joined the faculty at cambridge , where he conducted his research at cavendish and became a fellow and director of studies in natural sciences at pembroke college , cambridge .
in 1955 , french arrived at the university of south carolina , where he was made chairman of the physics department .
he left south carolina in 1962 to take a faculty position in the mit physics department , where he has been ever since .
french 's main interest is undergraduate physics education .
he was chairman of the commission on physics education of the international union of pure and applied physics -lrb- 1975-1981 -rrb- and president of the american association of physics teachers -lrb- 1985-1986 -rrb- .
he is also a fellow of the american physical society .
