Jearl Walker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jearl Walker

American physicist

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1945

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: physicist, academic, science communicator, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Jearl Walker

  • Jearl Walker (born 1945 in Pensacola, Florida) is a physicist noted for his book Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006.
  • He teaches physics at Cleveland State University.Walker has also revised and edited the textbook Fundamentals of Physics with David Halliday and Robert Resnick.Walker is a well known popularizer of physics, and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
  • Walker is known for his physics demonstrations, which have included sticking his hand in molten lead, walking barefoot over hot coals, lying on a bed of nails, and pouring freezing-cold liquid nitrogen in his mouth to demonstrate various principles of physics.
  • Such demonstrations are included in his PBS series, Kinetic Karnival, produced by WVIZ in Cleveland, Ohio. Walker authored The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American magazine from 1978 to 1988.
  • During the latter part of this period, he had been the Chairman of the Physics Department at Cleveland State University.
  • He appeared regularly around this time on the long-running CBC radio science program Quirks and Quarks.From 1981 to 1982 he hosted The Kinetic Karnival of Jearl Walker, a six-episode series for PBS syndication in the US.
  • In each 30-minute program he performed humorous demonstrations before a live audience.
  • The show was distributed to schools as a teaching aide. He is the first recipient, in 2005, of the Outstanding Teaching Award from Cleveland State's College of Science.
  • The College's Faculty Affairs Committee selected Walker as the first honoree based on his contributions to science education over the last 30 years.
  • The award was thereafter named "The Jearl Walker Outstanding Teaching Award" in his honor.Walker was born in Pensacola, Florida and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.
  • He graduated with a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967.
  • He received his Ph.D.
  • from the University of Maryland in 1973.

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