Robert J. Kolenkow
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Robert J. Kolenkow is an American physicist and teacher. He is best known for being the coauthor, along with Daniel Kleppner, of a popular undergraduate physics textbook.
Kolenkow did his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. For a time, he was an associate professor of physics at MIT. His departure in 1971 generated some controversy on campus; he was regarded as an excellent teacher by his students, however, the administration was viewed as being more concerned about research than education when making its tenure decisions.
Kolenkow became a professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He also co-authored a textbook on physical geography which was favorably reviewed.
Books
- Kleppner, Daniel; Robert Kolenkow (1973). An Introduction to Mechanics. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 546 pp. ISBN 0-07-035048-5. Kleppner, Daniel; Kolenkow, Robert (2014). 2014 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-19811-0.
- Muller, Robert A.; Robert J. Kolenkow; Theodore Oberlander (1978). Physical Geography Today: A Portrait of a Planet. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-32088-3.
External links
- Joe Kashi (1971-03-09). "Teaching Slighted in Tenure Decisions" (PDF). The Tech. Retrieved 2006-11-14. Column concerning Kolenkow's denial of tenure.
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