Blodgett, Earl
Oral history interview with Earl Blodgett, 2021 February 4..
In this interview, AIP Oral Historian Jon Phillips interviews Dr. Earl Blodgett, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin River Falls and Historian for Sigma Pi Sigma and the Society of Physics Students. Blodgett discusses his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin River Falls and graduate education at Washington University St. Louis in detail, including his work on acoustics with James Miller at Washington. He describes his return to River Falls as a teaching professor, and the development of physics pedagogy there, as well as his longstanding activity with both the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Society of Physics Students, for which he has served as both President and Historian. The interview includes extensive discussion of both the administrative and pedagogical dimensions and trends within undergraduate physics education in the United States over the course of Blodgetts full career.
Earl Blodgett is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin River Falls and Historian for Sigma Pi Sigma and the Society of Physics Students. He completed his graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Blodgett is an active member of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Acoustical Society of America
American Association of Physics Teachers
Society of Physics Students (American Institute of Physics)
University of Wisconsin--River Falls.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Physics -- Study and teaching
Sound
Wave propagation.
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Phillips, Jonathan W., 1983- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA