Daniel A. Fleisch

Dan Fleisch is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University, where he specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. He is the author of six books in the Student's Guide Series published by Cambridge University Press: A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors, A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy (co-authored by Dr. Julia Kregenow), A Student's Guide to Waves (co-authored with Prof. Laura Kinnaman), A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation, and A Student's Guide to Laplace Transforms, published in 2022. He is also co-author with the late Prof. John Kraus of The Ohio State University of the McGraw-Hill textbook Electromagnetics with Applications. Prof. Fleisch has published articles in the IEEE Transactions, the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, and Microwave Journal. He has presented more than a dozen professional papers on topics related to high-speed microwave instrumentation and radar cross-section measurement. He has been a regular contributor of science commentary to PBS station WYSO of Yellow Springs and appears in the public-television documentary The Dayton Codebreakers. Prof. Fleisch was named Outstanding Faculty Member at the Wittenberg Greek scholarship awards in 2000, and in 2002 he won the Omicron Delta Kappa award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2003 and 2005 he was recognized for Faculty Excellence and Innovation by the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE), and in 2004 he received Wittenberg's Distinguished Teaching Award, the university's highest faculty award. In November 2010, Fleisch was named the Ohio Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation, and he will serve as the Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence in the fall of 2022. Fleisch received his B.S. in Physics from Georgetown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Space Physics and Astronomy from Rice University.