戴维·L·古德斯坦因

大卫·路易斯·古德斯坦（英语：David Louis Goodstein，1939年4月5日—2024年4月10日）是一名美国物理学家和教育家。1988年至2007年，他担任加州理工学院副教务长，同时也是该校物理学和应用物理学教授，以及弗兰克·J·吉隆杰出教学与服务教授。

生平

古德斯坦于1939年4月5日出生于纽约。他曾就读于布鲁克林学院（1960年获学士学位）和华盛顿大学（1965年获博士学位）。他写过几本书，包括《物质状态》（1975年，多佛平装本再版）和《费曼失落的演讲》（1996年）。1980年代，他曾担任《机械宇宙》的导演和主持人，这是一部物理学教育电视系列片，被改编为高中教材，并被翻译成多种其他语言。该系列节目已在数百家公共广播电台播出，并获得十多个著名奖项，包括1987年日本电视奖晚年，在继续从事凝聚体物理实验教学和研究的同时，他将注意力转向与科学和社会相关的问题。在文章和演讲中，他谈到科学中的行为和不端行为，以及与化石燃料和地球气候有关的问题。2004年，他出版了一本畅销书《Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil》。

1999年，古德斯坦获得美国物理教师协会颁发的奥斯特奖章，2000年获得Sigma Xi科学研究学会颁发的约翰·P·麦戈文奖章。他曾担任多个科学和学术小组的成员和主席，包括美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学局国家咨询委员会。他也是加州科技委员会董事会的创始成员。

2015年，他出版了《热物理学：能量与熵》（Thermal Physics: Energy and Entropy）。古德斯坦于2024年4月10日去世，享年85岁。

David Louis Goodstein (April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and educator. From 1988 to 2007 he served as Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was also a professor of physics and applied physics, as well as (since 1995) the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor.

Life and work

David Louis Goodstein was born on April 5, 1939. He was educated at Brooklyn College (BS, 1960) and at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1965). He wrote several books, including States of Matter (1975) (reprinted in a Dover paperback edition) and Feynman’s Lost Lecture (1996). In the 1980s he was the director and host of The Mechanical Universe, an educational television series on physics that was adapted for high school use and translated into many other languages. The series has been broadcast on hundreds of public broadcasting stations and has garnered more than a dozen prestigious awards, including the 1987 Japan Prize for television.

In his later age, while continuing to teach and conduct research in experimental condensed matter physics, he turned his attention to issues related to science and society. In articles and speeches, he addressed conduct and misconduct in science, and issues related to fossil fuels and the climate of Planet Earth. In 2004 he published a best-selling book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.

In 1999, Goodstein was awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 2000, the John P. McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society. He served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He was a founding member of the board of directors of the California Council on Science and Technology.

In 2015 he published Thermal Physics: Energy and Entropy. Goodstein died in Pasadena, California on April 10, 2024, five days after his 85th birthday.

Publications

Books

1975 States of matter. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (reissued by Dover Publications, 1985; unabridged and corrected republication, 2014).

1985 The mechanical universe: introduction to mechanics and heat (Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein). New York: Cambridge University Press (1st pbk. ed. 2007).

1985 Beyond the mechanical universe: from electricity to modern physics (Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein). New York: Cambridge University Press (1st pbk. ed. 2007).

1986 The Mechanical Universe, Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition, textbook (Steven C. Frautschi, Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein). New York: Cambridge University Press (1st pbk. ed. 2008).

1996 Feynman's lost lecture: the motion of planets around the sun (David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein). New York: Norton.

2004 Out of gas: the End of the Age of Oil. New York: Norton.

2010 On fact and fraud: cautionary tales from the front lines of science. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

2011 Adventures in Cosmology (David Goodstein, editor). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 2012 reprint

2012 Climate Change and the Energy Problem: Physical Science and Economics Perspective (David Goodstein & Michael Intriligator). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing (2nd Edition, 2017).

2012 (by Paolo Saraceno). Beyond the stars: our origins and the search for life in the universe (David Goodstein, translator). Singapore; Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific Publishing.

2015 Thermal physics: energy and entropy. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

2018 Science of the Earth, Climate, and Energy (Milton W. Cole, Angela D. Lueking, David L. Goodstein). New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing.

Articles, Book chapters, Reviews

1989 "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". Physics Today, 42(2):70–75. doi:10.1063/1.881195.

1994 "The Big Crunch". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 78(32):329,334. doi:10.1029/97EO00213.