Dan Fleisch

Daniel "Dan" Fleisch is an American physicist who specializes in electromagnetics and space physics.^[1] He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Wittenberg University.^[2]

A minor planet is named after him.^[3]

Biography

Fleisch earned his B.S. from Georgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University in space physics and astronomy.^[4] He has been a professor at Wittenberg University since 1998.^[4]

Fleisch has provided science commentary for PBS station WYSO,^[5][6] and in 2006, appeared in the documentary The Dayton Codebreakers.^[4]

Writing

Fleisch has authored several textbooks, including A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations^[7] (2008) and A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors (2011).^[8][9] His other works include A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy and A Student's Guide to Waves, published in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2020, he published A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger equation.^[10] His work has been translated into multiple languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Italian.^[4]