About John R. Taylor
Born 1939. John R. Taylor is an American physicist.
John Robert Taylor is British-born emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
He received his B.A. in mathematics at Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with thesis advisor Geoffrey Chew. Taylor has written several college-level physics textbooks. His bestselling book is An Introduction to Error Analysis, which has been translated into nine languages. His intermediate-level undergraduate textbook, Classical Mechanics, was well-reviewed.
Awards Taylor was designated a Presidential Teaching Scholar in 1991. He has also received an Emmy Award for his television series Physics 4 Fun (1988–1990).
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British-born American physicist
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John R. Taylor was born on 2 February 1939 in Greater London.
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