The following awards were given at the 2012 Winter Meeting in Ontario, CA
The Oersted Medal for 2012 is presented to Charles H. Holbrow, who, during a career spanning more than 40 years, has made numerous innovative contributions to physics education and physics research. Among his more significant efforts on behalf of physics teaching, he and his Colgate colleagues James Lloyd, Joseph Amato, and, more recently, Enrique Galvez and Beth Parks have worked to revitalize the introductory physics curriculum by replacing the time-honored chronological approach with an approach emphasizing atoms, non-Newtonian topics, and 20th-century physics. First published in 1999, their textbook, Modern Introductory Physics, appeared in a 2nd edition version in 2010.
Beyond his teaching and mentoring of students, Holbrow's interests in physics pedagogy, physics research, and the history of physics have resulted in many talks at AAPT and other meetings and many articles in Physics Today, American...
