Dan Fleisch


Daniel "Dan" Fleisch is an American physicist who specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Wittenberg University.
A minor planet is named after him.

Biography

Fleisch earned his B.S. from Georgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University in space physics and astronomy. He has been a professor at Wittenberg University since 1998.
Fleisch has provided science commentary for PBS station WYSO, and in 2006, appeared in the documentary The Dayton Codebreakers.

Writing

Fleisch has authored several textbooks, including A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations and A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors. His other works include A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy and A Student's Guide to Waves, published in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In 2020, he published A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger equation. His work has been translated into multiple languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Italian.