Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel & Kate Nepveu, 2006
Nationality United States
Fields Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Institutions Union College

Chad Orzel is a popular science author, noted for his books How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (also called How to Teach Physics to Your Dog) which has been translated into 9 languages, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.[1][2]

Background

Chad was born and raised in central New York state, near Binghamton, and attended Williams College. After graduating, he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, studying quantum mechanical effects in Bose-Einstein Condensates.[2][3] He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, under Nobel Laureate William Daniel Phillips and is now Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College specializing in atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

Writing career

In addition to teaching and doing research at Union, he maintains a physics-oriented weblog, Uncertain Principles as part of the ScienceBlogs project run by SEED magazine. He's also on Facebook and Twitter.[4] He published his first book, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog in 2009. The book and its sequel How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog explain scientific concepts using a fictionalized version of Orzel's real-life dog Emmy as an audience surrogate.

Personal life

He lives in Niskayuna, NY with his wife, Kate Nepveu, their two children, and their dog Emmy.[3]

Publications

References

  1. http://dogphysics.com/book_info.html
  2. 1 2 Contemporary Authors vol. 339, 2013. (available online as part of Gale's Literature Resource Center
  3. 1 2 About Chad
  4. "Uncertain Principles". ScienceBlogs. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 WorldCat author file
  6. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek entry for book

External links

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