About our author R ichard Wolfson is the Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College where he has taught since 1976. He did undergraduate work at MIT and Swarthmore College and he holds an M. S. from the University of Michigan and Ph. D. from Dartmouth. His ongoing research on the Sun's corona and climate change has taken him to sabbaticals at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado; St. Andrews University in Scotland; and Stanford University. Rich is a committed and passionate teacher. This is reflected in his many publications for students and the general public including the video series Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Nonscientists (The Teaching Company 1999) Physics in Your Life (The Teaching Company 2004) Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works (The Teaching Company 2011) and Understanding Modern Electronics(The Teaching Company 2014); books Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology (MIT Press 1993) Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified (W. W. Norton 2003) and Energy Environment and Climate(W. W. Norton 3rd edition 2018); and articles for Scientific American and the World Book Encyclopedia. Outside of his research and teaching Rich enjoys hiking canoeing gardening cooking and watercolor painting. . Language: English