Physics in the Classroom
September is here and that can only mean one thing – back to school! This month, we’ve selected our favorite images of physicists in the classroom, sharing their knowledge of the physical sciences with students of all ages. To view more images like these from our archives, type the keyword “classrooms” or “students” into our Quick Search.
Harald Enge uses a magnetically suspended mannequin in a demonstration of Stokes Law for students in a freshman physics class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Date: Unknown
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Isidor Fankuchen (center) demonstrates laboratory equipment to two high school students. He held annual summer courses on X-ray diffusion in Brooklyn and often invited high schoolers to participate.Date: circa 1960s
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Fankuchen Collection
James S. Solomon demonstrates the force of atmospheric pressure to elementary school children in West Carrolton, Ohio.Date: 1992
AVS, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
James Stith, Physics education researcher, past Vice President of the American Institute of Physics, and past president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, presents a lesson to a group of unidentified students.Date: unknown
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Nuclear Physicist John R. Stehn explains properties of electrons to high school teachers at Union College.Date: September 1954
General Electric Company Research Lab, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
When he wasn’t teaching physics, math, or Spanish at New Albany High School, young Edwin Hubble (back row, center) coached the high school basketball team. He is pictured here with the 1914 team.Date: 1914
New Albany High School Yearbook, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
