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Robert J. Kolenkow is an American physicist and teacher. He is best known for being the coauthor, along with Daniel Kleppner, of a popular undergraduate physics textbook, '' An Introduction to Mechanics''. Kolenkow did his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1955. For a time, he was an associate professor of physics at MIT. His departure in 1971 generated some controversy on campus; he was regarded as an excellent teacher by his students, however, the administration was viewed as being more concerned about research than education when making its tenure decisions. Kolenkow became a professor at
Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...
in Northfield, Minnesota. He also co-authored a textbook on physical geography which was favorably reviewed.


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* Column concerning Kolenkow's denial of tenure. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolenkow, Robert J. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty 21st-century American physicists American textbook writers