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David J. Griffiths

David Jeffrey Griffiths (born December 5, 1942) is an American physicist and educator. He was on the faculty of Reed College from 1978 through 2009, becoming the Howard Vollum Professor of Science before his retirement. He wrote four highly regarded textbooks for undergraduate physics students.

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Undergraduate textbooks
Alma mater
Harvard University
Born
David Jeffrey Griffiths (1942-12-05) 5 December 1942 (age 83) Arlington, Virginia, United States
Doctoral advisor
Sidney Coleman
Fields
Particle physics Electromagnetism
Thesis
Covariant Approach to Massless Field Theory in the Radiation Gauge (1970)

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