Interview for Infinite History Project

[@martincarey8620]

Professor, I have watched and admired all of your lectures, and only now have I discovered this interview! It was a real joy to watch this, as it is to still watch your KZbin videos you make today!

[@samarthsai9530]

I am really, really inspired. never going to stop EXPERIENCING things through physics. I really love physics.

[@Raphael_NYC]

Thank you Dr. Lewin. There is no way to describe my joy watching your lectures and this "conversation" explains a lot. Your generosity makes me want to give to others. Your genius makes me want to listen. Your kindness leaves me humbled.. raphael santore

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@danialm.s796]

Dear and Great Professor, Many thanks for all of your great lectures. You were completely successful in conveying the concepts to your students all over the world. I wish you had lectures on Modern Physics topics too. Who can do it better than you? Best wishes to you sir.

[@xealit]

"derivations in PowerPoint is a crime" -- standing ovation "might as well say it is in the book" -- or in the google indeed PowerPoint lectures bring less knowledge than Wikipedia

[@devkumar12]

One of the greatest physicists in the world. I love him alot for the way he teaches is really outstanding. Hats off Sir!!!

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

So nice of you

[@Dr10Jeeps]

An amazing scientist, an amazing professor, and an amazing human being. Period! Full stop!

[@taboosaboo]

A reason to mix the MultiMedia Artstudents with ScientificArtstudents. Q&A: What is Adhesive? What can be done with it?

[@andrewstrobel8628]

I love your lectures ! Thank you for making this world a better place :)

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@rutvijgholap8647]

Professor Lewin I am fascinated by your videos on physics it has helped me to see the word in a different way I love physics and want to purse a career in it what according to you should be my first step i am studying in grade 11 cbse(Indian curriculum)

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

1st step: score straight A's for all science course and math in high school.

[@ishwantsingh955]

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. sir , would you please tell me what is the most important thing i need if I want to get into MIT. the only reason is that I would get to learn what i love the most (physics and then maths) from great personalities like you. p.s. i live in india and I am currently studying in grade 11.

[@niko97219]

"If You show a derivation on Powerpoint that is criminal that is a crime... I have never committed that crime." - Walter Lewin Nothing but respect for those professors who are not afraid to grab the chalk and write on the blackboard.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@youpie24]

True that! in most every field of knowledge or information a powerpoint butchers imagination, it washes away any concentration.

[@juezrich3899]

Prof. Walter ik bewonder uw werk .. ik ben zelf niet werkzaam in de natuurkunde.. maar u maakt het zo leuk en leerzaam.. wat had ik graag bij uw lectures gezeten bij MIT.. u boft met zo een mooie baan/werk omgeving. groeten uit almere !

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

43 jaar op MIT was heaven! Ik ben in 2009 op pensioen gegaan.

[@juezrich3899]

Bedankt voor uw reactie, ik bewonder u vele malen meer dan de huidige commerciele entertainers, geniet van uw pensioen

[@sid635]

Finally Found a pure Gem in KZbin, love the way to speak ❤

[@fjs1111]

Love you professor. You're the best and most creative educator in physics that I've ever seen. You're a legend.

[@frankstrauss9629]

''An amasing scientist Dr WALTER LEWIN.''

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@Zack-xz1ph]

Ah, as you mentioned shorthand I had just pulled out my Gregg shorthand book to study. Very useful skill for students I am surprised has died out

[@aniketghoman8412]

I genuinely feel that I have seen god in you, Prof.Walter Lewin. I like the way you teach,I like the way you inspire people,the way you perform in your lecture hall.You are an Artist. Love and respect from India.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@bomcimtube]

It is amazing to me that Prof. Lewin and I had similar fate - I also came to US (Berkeley) with a postdoctoral fellowship from The Netherlands and never went back. I also came with a J1 visa :)

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

did you become a Professor at Berkeley?

[@bomcimtube]

I didn’t. I switched to industry after 2 years at Berkeley. From academia, I mainly miss the times when I was an assistant for inorganic chemistry labs teaching to junior college students and when I was lecturing high school students on summers. After watching your lectures, I was thinking that your genius gift is to present reality to our minds in a connected system. This is indeed a sort of new creation, sort of art - reality was there but we did not see.

[@rehmanzed]

He is living pure genius. He devoted his life to the physics and science. He is truly into it. Wish you have a long life.

[@parjitkhakh6970]

Professor, when you say Physics is a new way of seeing, I can see that now

[@rocketmantrav5623]

I've started learn physics myself, and professor Walter lewin and Richard feynman's lectures has been great great resourses for me to learn this subject in terms of love of physics and simplicity. I wish someday I will unraveling the mysteries about times, space matters. I am definetly gonna be a physisits, I know it

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

great!

[@rhampton1914]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful interview..Enjoyed watching this very much...

[@600322]

This person as many other could not remember their first years after birth.But they have read in the aftermath and interveaw what could be a plausible answer to there questions.

[@thembadube5513]

The world's best Professor

[@sravanthkumarchintalacheru1359]

The moments you were talking about your best friend ;(

[@uiticus]

Professor Lewin will you be receptive in being a guest lecturer in physics at the Technion Institute of Israel or have you ever done that?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

When invited and if all my costs are covered, I will be happy to accept. I gave a talk at the Technion on March 26, 1971 and on March 28 at Te; Aviv University. I was then invited to spend 10 days in Israel. For health reasons (I am 81 yr old) I am only allowed to fly business class. My wife will join me at my expense.

[@shaunbabar]

34:40 October 15 is my birthday. 😊

[@solivagantsat]

love this guy

[@guldeniskaliyeva5167]

Best physics teacher ever!

[@TonyMarzoa]

Dear Profesor Walter Lewin, Thanks a lot for all your vídeos and your pationate and particular way to explain Physics; I cannot count how many times I saw your wonderful videos. I was wondering if you could put the name of the english edition of the Rainbow book that you mentioned in this video. Thank you and best wishes from Spain.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

use google for books on rainbows

[@USER-jo7yz]

It is very interesting to know how the other faculty teachers were influenced by Prof. Lewin's methods? Did they change their ways in teaching?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

many did and many are still doing it. But inspiring teaching is very much related to your imagination and your personality. If you have a boring personality it's tough to become an inspiring teacher.

[@USER-jo7yz]

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Obviously, you are right!!! I loved physics even before I met you in KZbin and I must say I felt alone... Nobody around me valued this extraordinary discipline as much as I did! The contemporary technologies about astrophysics research is fascinating! But nobody knows about it! The James Webb project unfortunately didn't reach the broader public yet. CERN is for few people. ITER is hardly known. I think an achiever like you must be involved in getting this knowledge be spread to general population and future voters! Trump's environmental policy must be eliminated from mainstream same-minded politicians who ignore elementary physics! In our technological age people must be able to decide through knowledge!

[@thephysicsshow9455]

Prof. Lewin thank you for providing an example of true physics teaching. Do you think that physics is erotic?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

It's all in the mind of the beholder.

[@thephysicsshow9455]

Are you a Spinozist ?

[@Rayquesto]

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Chick Corea album. :)

[@SNROPQUEYR]

Professor Walter Lewin - Lectures are above amazing -

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@SNROPQUEYR]

@@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 View all Professor Lewin lectures on KZbin > Birth of Stars. etc etc. And keep in your Video Library. 😎😇😎

[@SNROPQUEYR]

Research into heavier elements ~ with respect to - Periodic Table - One Atom of a Neutron Star - Atomic Number? - Compressed protons + electrons!

[@Ukedc259]

Phenomenal man.

[@Acoyo]

Prof. Walter Lewin Thank you for the videos.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@siddharthsharma9168]

professor Lewin thank you very much for your wonderful lectures.but I want to ask how to study so that I can see through the equations and explain difficult things in a simple way.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

watch my lectures. I make you look through the eqs

[@siddharthsharma9168]

sir is there any book I should follow with your lectures to enhance my learning

[@GustavoMerchan79]

Where can you get art lectures taught Walter Lewin - style (or as similarly as possible)? I'd like to learn how to see art rather than just look at it. Any recommendation? Thanks!

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKvgZ2Ql56XeLs

[@yurisindler3512]

Hello Prof. Lewin, what is the name of the book that you mention in the beginning? I would like to search it on Amazon, or Abebooks. Thank you.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

8.01 PhysicsHans C. Ohanian2nd editionW.W. Norton & CompanyISBN 0-393-95748-9 8.02 Physics for Scientists & Engineers by Douglas C. Giancoli. Prentice HallISBN 0-13-021517-1 8.03 Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation by Bekefi and Barrett.The MIT PressISBN 0-262-52047-8

[@yurisindler3512]

Thank you very much.

[@hemantsharma3261]

Nameste sir

[@fanfam]

Respect for what you mean for the wetenschap all around the world.

[@billglaser]

Walter, thank you for igniting my pure love of physics and science and one day, I hope to be in the field discovering new things and educating students just like you. Oh and by the way my friend, I will never see a rainbow the same again. Haha :) take care.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

:)

[@99WaysCarr]

Dr. Strangelove.

[@meikejune4009]

This interview is very intense. Your story was the reason to fall in love with you. We never met, and that is good. Because when I love it is like eating tulip bulbs. Thank you for your book, Walter Lewin.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

Wow, thank you

[@ron2788]

Walter Lewin criticizing a professor at Harvard?! *Pulls out popcorn and munches obnoxiously* 39:04

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

Wrong science by people who dig their heels in can be and should be criticized. I did that also successfully in several scientific papers - that's what science is for. You can read about this in my book (with Warren Goldstein) "For the Love of Physics". By the way I never eat popcorn, don't like it.

[@ron2788]

I have a dear friend of mine that goes to Harvard and he always jokes about "The technical school down the street." I always laugh at that joke and how MIT and Harvard view each other in general.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

Of course I am familiar with that. That's kind of a game played at MIT and at Harvard. Of course we all at MIT respect Harvard enormously and Harvard respects MIT and for GOOD reasons. That's very different from scientific matters. If anyone in the world digs her/his heels in on an important scientific issue (in this case X-ray Bursts) which is clearly WRONG, then that should be made clear to the world regardless of the University of that person. It just so happens that this person was at Harvard.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

Many of my undergraduates at MIT were accepted at Harvard's grad school. I always jokingly told them that's it not bad to be accepted at the 2nd best grad school in the US. ha ha ha

[@ron2788]

Thank you for sharing this interview with us on KZbin who only know you through your lectures. It is enjoyable to learn about your history professor.

[@priyabhate8895]

hello sir. my name is priya.its quite weird question. I have completed my 12 th std and I have also passed my engg entrance exam with good marks. i have plan from 9 th std that I will prefer research side as career in physics but now I have got admission is Cummins clg of engg in computer engg(not yet confirm) which has good campus and placement after btech. my parents are also saying me that I should prefer engg and now I am completely confused. i have searched on internet most of sites says that india has very poor research sources(even so called iits ,ISSER )most of my friends say that if you choose research side then there's no opportunities in india you have to go aboard which is financially very hard to my family. sir you have seen lots chaos about your students career. you have guide them. should I choose research side(in physics. i really likes physics. i like to think on its concept ) or engg (which is showing me atleast good and stable job or a good package)? I hope you will reply.

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

The best University in India is ranked 328 in the world (IIT Delhi). That is indeed low. The other IIT's are even lower. However, if this is the best available within your reach (also financial reach) you have little choice. Of course, you should try to be admitted in one of the top 50-100 in the world. If you are an outstanding high school student that may work. If you are even better then outstanding you may get fellowships. You have quite a few years to go before this becomes an issue for you. During the next 4 years, your thinking will evolve. Write me again in 2 years. With some luck I may still be alive then.All the best. cwur.org/2014.php

[@priyabhate8895]

thank you sir. I don't know that I am outstanding student or not.but i really like physics and the only thing in my hand is making myself conceptually best and hard work may be whatever I choose my career path.

[@priyabhate8895]

hello sir. I have decided to do my career in research side. I have cancelled my engg seat. now I am going to do bsc in PCM may be I will do my MSc in india but I wil try my 100% to do my phd aboard in top 50 or 100 university.😊 you know sir If l will do computer engg may be I will become another software robot who is going to test program(created by another who is born for programming) till the end of my life. 😊😊😊thank you😊😊😊

[@dennish72]

amazing story

[@rishabhgola]

love you lewin

[@FriedKvothe]

in this interview you mention that you focused almost solely on lecturing during the time periods when you taught large classes and that each of your lectures takes a huge amount of time to prepare for. Given that professors who focus on lecturing rather than spending all their time on research during their pre-tenure years are almost always rejected for their tenurship (at least, from what I've heard as an undergrad), how were you able to dedicate large amounts of time to lecturing in addition to your research?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

My research had a large momentum (well funded) and I had several excellent Graduate students with whom I met once a week when I lectured; they kept our research going!! I also negotiated with the Physics Dept to always get one teaching term off before or after I lectured.

[@FriedKvothe]

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Thanks for the quick response! Did you ever teach any particularly large classes that prevented you from doing your own research (you mentioned this in your 8.01x lecture 34.) during your early years at MIT, or were those classes taught only by more experienced professors at MIT? I ask because I am curious as to how you handled the balance between your lectures and research during the earlier years and what impact(s) gaining experience and momentum in your research had on how you balanced the two. Thank you for your time!

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

I joined the MIT faculty in June 1966. I was recitation instructor for many years. I believe my first major lecturing course for 300+ students (8.03) was in 1972.

[@FriedKvothe]

Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics. Thank you for your responses! Your feedback has helped me understand the balance between research and lecturing a bit better. Do you remember how you handled balancing your research with your dissertations? Were you able to both lecture and research during the periods where you were a dissertation professor? Thanks again for your responses, they're clearing a lot of doubts I was unsure of.

[@rocketmantrav5623]

Hello sir, could you tell me the name of book you said in dutch?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

how many minutes and seconds into the video?

[@rocketmantrav5623]

@@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 exactly at 8:30

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

@@rocketmantrav5623 Natuurkunde van het Vrije Veld by Minnaert

[@mugizifrancis9667]

Maestro of physics

[@jeff7037]

Happy birthday It is a long interview about interesting you. Thank you to let us know that mysterious history of you. 😄( Wait and pause. I just watch in the beginning just around one fifth of this film.)

[@Smartwaytolearn-di2es]

Walter lewin sir I also a fan of you

[@alameen3480]

Professor Lewin, how can I teach a complex derivation say for example Navier Stokes equation to a class of undergraduate students who are not having an adequate background knowledge ? Also I find difficult to teach a long derivation within the 50 min time constraint. Could you please give your insight into this?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

use your imagination. That's what I do. It sometimes takes me several weeks before I find a good way. That's what inspiring teaching is all about.

[@alameen3480]

Thank you for advice sir. :)

[@alameen3480]

Professor, In one of your interview, you were talking about your preparation time for a lecture as 40 hrs. My question to you is that do you write your script and practice from it as part of your preparation?

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

A typical preparation time for 1 lecture is 60-80 hr. No I do not write a script. But I dry run all my lectures 3 times before I give the lecture. 2 weeks before, 1 week before and at 6 AM of the day of the lecture. Every 5 min I have a LARGE time mark in my lecture notes (starting with 50 min, going down to zero). I have a large digital clock on the lecture desk which is set at 50 min when I start the lecture and it is counting down. Thus at ANY moment during my lecture I know within about 1 minute where I am and where I am supposed to be. Thus I NEVER overrun, I never have to do an interesting demo in haste with a sloppy explanation. I typically finish my lectures within 1 minute of 50 min. Of course during the first dry run, it ALWAYS takes near 60-70 min. I then have to do careful surgery as changes are needed. By the time it is 6 AM in the morning of the day I give the lecture I am always well synchronized between my time marks and the digital clock. My lectures have therefore become performances (like an actor on the stage). my secrets are: *imagination, go outside the box with examples and with demos. I do often demos that will make them sit on the edge of their seats. make the students laugh at times, make them cry, make them stop breathing, even make them wet their pants at times. confront them as much as possible with experiences in their own lives. where possible I include a student in a demo. I also do demos in which I take risks I never become boring. I make them look through the equations so make the eqs come alive I always keep their attention with my clarity, sense of humor and my LOVE for Physics. I radiate my enthusiasm - it's contagious. I can make ANYONE love physics and one of my "famous" quotes is: "if you hate physics it's only because you had a bad teacher".*

[@ovidiudans]

love you

[@nuclearphysicsbyrs8766]

🙏🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@jaydevzala7806]

Sir can tell me the name of book which is written by Dutch professor about the phenomenons happen due to light . (In English language )

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

Dutch Title "Natuurkunde van het Vrije Veld by Prof Minnaert. I only have the Dutch version

[@jaydevzala7806]

Thank you so much sir no problem

[@abhayphysics01]

Love you❤

[@600322]

I have listened to dr Levin.But he has nothing important to say.

[@meikejune4009]

Tomorrow is the 29. January. Your birthday. I think, I know of what you are thinking about. In your interview you explained, that your family was a victim of the NS. Here in Germany we have many historical reports about Auschwitz and the liberation of the Jews this days. Walter, I really hope, that you will have some good hours nevertheless tomorrow. What do you think, what should I do as a German born in the 1960ies ? Perhaps I'm wrong, but I tried because of Auschwitz not to doubt about the people in our present, who tell me their stories about maltreatment. It is better beeing wrong in believe as beeing indifferent. It is a second crime to ask a victim if there is any reason for the violence. What makes me crazy is the "rebirth" of Nazi propaganda in some groups. But I think, nevertheless you and me too have the right to have good and happy hours. Walter, have a nice day tomorrow!

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

it's aready Jan 29 in India!! and 2 hrfrom now it will also be Jan 29 in Germany

[@meikejune4009]

@@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 I know that. We have the same time here as in the Netherlands. I just heard, that the Dutch are experts in High Water floods and sent some experts to New York. Walter, I wanted to produce a video with a birthday song for you, but it looked disturbing 😀. Better not. Have some beautiful impressions on YOURDAY!

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

@@meikejune4009 the thought is what counts

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mobHg5uOi6usd6s

[@meikejune4009]

@@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259 Walter, I saw this Happy-Birthday- video in the link. Very well done! You look super today with your golden hat. We should make a new Art project. Making photo- portaits of people with your Golden Hat on But the essence is, you must take the portrait with your camera. And then we make an exhibition of the Golden-Hat-Portraits. Walter, I'm sitting here in Germany, why?

[@ElexGamingLifeSafetyGuy]

17:15

[@SNROPQUEYR]

Research into heavier elements ~ with respect to - Periodic Table - One Atom of a Neutron Star - Atomic Number? - Compressed protons + electrons!

[@mushtaqchoudhry4434]

You are a lovely man u will not die before embrassing Quran pak

[@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259]

*In that case I will live forever as I am an atheist*