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词条 Daniel Q. Posin
释义

  1. Teaching

  2. Television

  3. Recognition

  4. Later life

  5. Books

  6. References

  7. External links

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Daniel Q. Posin (1909–2003) was an American physicist.[1][2][3] He was born in 1909 in Russian Turkestan, close to the Caspian Sea. When he was six years old his family fled the Russian revolution, and in a journey that took three years he made it to Mongolia and finally to the United States, the final leg of the journey on a cattle boat to San Francisco.[4] He attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and earning a Ph.D. in physics.

Teaching

Posin worked as a teaching assistant at Berkeley for two years, and then accepted a position teaching physics from 1937-41 in Panama. He returned to the US and taught at Montana State University and the Montana School of Mines until 1944, when he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and performed research on radar and radioactivity. At MIT he also met Albert Einstein. It was Einstein who urged him to teach ordinary people about the peaceful uses of atomic power, and that led to Posin writing the book I Have Been to the Village. Posin gave more than 3,000 lectures about nuclear power and his position on peaceful use won him six nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1946 Posin became chairman of the physics department at North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo. In 1955, Posin, along with Cecil Haver and Baldur Kristjanson (Assistant Professors of Agricultural Economics), and William B. Treumann (Professor of Chemistry), was asked to resign by University President Frederick Hultz in what became known as "The Purge".[5][6][7] In 1956, he took a position teaching physics at DePaul University.[1]

From 1967 until 1996 Dr. Posin taught Astronomy, Earth Science and Physics at San Francisco State University. He often promoted humanitarian relief efforts such as Project Guatemala in 1974 during his tenure there.

Television

In his television career he explained astronomy, physics and space. He won six Emmys for his educational series broadcast by WGN and WTTW,[8] including "Dr. Posin's Universe",[9] "The Universe Around Us",[10] "On the Shoulders of Giants", and "Out of This World". He served as an on-air consultant for WGN during the 1960s space race.

Recognition

Posin was awarded six Emmy awards for his for educational programming in television. Also, in 1972 he was given the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize six times.[10]

Later life

In 1967 Posin began teaching physics again at San Francisco State University where he taught physics and earth sciences until he retired in 1996 at the age of 87. Posin died at the age of 93 at the Woldenberg Village Nursing Home in New Orleans. Throughout his life he was "resolutely nonreligious," according to his daughter Kathryn. However, his wife adopted the Bahá'í Faith, and he expressed desire to “to go where she’s going.”[10]

Books

His book I Have Been to the Village[11] includes a quote by Einstein, who wrote: "Dr. Dan Q. Posin's book bears eloquent witness to the sincere and self-sacrificing way in which the ablest among the scientists try to fulfill their duty toward the community." Posin authored over 30 books, including Dr. Posin's Giants: Men of Science,[12] Out of This World,[13] Mendeleyev: The Story of a Great Scientist,[14][15] Exploring and Understanding Our Solar System, What is a star (The What is it series), What is Chemistry, What is Electronic Communication, Science in the Age of Space, Chemistry for the Space Age, Find Out! First Step to the Future, and PHYSICS: Its Marvels and Mysteries.

References

1. ^{{cite news |last=Biemer |first=John |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-26/news/0305260108_1_depaul-university-university-professor-physics |title=Daniel Q. Posin, 93 - Physicist's local shows won Emmys |work=Chicago Tribune |date=2003-05-26 |accessdate=2017-03-14 }}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/fargo-s-first-tv-weatherman-dead-at/article_810cf4db-d2cb-564e-9edc-ef0713ed067e.html |title=Fargo's first TV weatherman dead at 93 |work=Bismark Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=2003-05-22 |accessdate=2017-03-14 }}
3. ^{{cite news |last=Rotzall |first=Brenda Warner |url=http://www.plosin.com/beatbegins/archive/DanPosin1.htm |title=Daniel Posin, 93; Explained Space to Masses |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=2003-05-28 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
4. ^{{cite news |last=Helm |first=Merry |url=http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/dakota-datebook?post=3333 |title=Daniel Posin, Physicist |work=Dakota Datebook |publisher=Prairie Public |date=2007-05-22 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
5. ^{{cite news |last=Treumann |first=William |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10365/5463 |title=The Controversy of 1955 Records |work=William Treumann, The Controversy of 1955 records [Bulk Dates: 1953-1957] |publisher=North Dakota State University Libraries |date=2009 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
6. ^{{cite court |litigants=Daniel Q. Posin, Baldur Kristjanson, Cecil B. Haver And William B. Treumann, Petitioners And Appellants, V. State Board Of Higher Education, Respondent |vol=86 N.W.2d 31 (N.D. 1957) |court=Supreme Court of North Dakota |url=https://casetext.com/case/posin-v-state-board-of-higher-education }}
7. ^{{cite news |last=Leewana |first=Thomas |url=http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/dakota-datebook?post=34080 |title=Highest Rated News Story |work=Dakota Datebook |publisher=Prairie Public |date=2011-09-02 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}; {{cite news |last=Leewana |first=Thomas |url=http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/dakota-datebook?post=34084 |title=Continued |work=Dakota Datebook |publisher=Prairie Public |date=2011-09-05 |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://interactive.wttw.com/about/history |title=History - Serving Kids |publisher=WTTW |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://americanarchive.org/about-the-american-archive/projects/net-catalog/series |title=National Educational Television (NET) Collection Catalog Project |publisher=American Archive of Public Broadcasting |accessdate=2017-03-15 }}
10. ^{{cite web|last1=Vyse|first1=Stuart|title=Before Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, There Was Dan Q. Posin|url=https://www.csicop.org/si/show/before_carl_sagan_and_neil_degrasse_tyson_there_was_dan_q._posin|website=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|accessdate=24 April 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424223305/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/before_carl_sagan_and_neil_degrasse_tyson_there_was_dan_q._posin|archivedate=24 April 2018}}
11. ^{{cite book|author=Daniel Q. Posin|title=I Have Been to the Village|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9FOnQEACAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Edward Brothers}}
12. ^{{cite book|author=Daniel Q. Posin|title=Dr. Posin's Giants: Men of Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7_eGAAACAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Row, Peterson}}
13. ^{{cite book|title=Out of this World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTf3BlAksIoC|year=1959|publisher=Popular Mechanics Press}}
14. ^{{cite book|author=Daniel Q. Posin|title=Mendeleyev: The Story of a Great Scientist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FjEngEACAAJ|date=October 2013|publisher=Literary Licensing, LLC|isbn=978-1-4940-9458-4}}
15. ^{{cite journal|last1=Leicester|first1=Henry M.|title=Mendeleyev. The story of a great scientist|journal=Journal of Chemical Education|volume=27|issue=1|year=1950|page=52|issn=0021-9584|doi=10.1021/ed027p52.2}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20010615071430/http://www.sfsu.edu/~uwa/archives_pres.htm San Francisco State University. Presidents Archive. Patsy Posin (Dan) 1977-79 ]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7ioullpeY&feature=youtu.be WTTW Channel 11 - On the Shoulders of Giants A.K.A. "Dr. Posin's Giants" (1961)]
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