James Kakalios, author portrait
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James Kakalios

James Kakalios is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 1988, and where his class "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books" is a popular freshman seminar. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Chicago, and has been reading comic books for much longer.
The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood
The Physics of Everyday Things
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
The Physics of Superheroes

Books

The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood
The Physics of Everyday Things
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
The Physics of Superheroes

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