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Lance Cooper receives 2008 Nordsieck Teaching Award

11/20/2008

Professor of Physics S. Lance Cooper is the recipient of the 2008 Arnold T. Nordsieck Award for Teaching Excellence.  Photo by Thompson/McClellan.

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Professor of Physics S. Lance Cooper has been named the 2008 recipient of the Arnold T. Nordsieck Award for Teaching Excellence for "his total dedication to teaching excellence, the outstanding content of his courses, and his complete availability to students at all levels."

The Nordsieck Award is named after Arnold T. Nordsieck, a professor in this department from 1947 to 1961. It is made possible by an endowed gift from the Nordsieck family. A theorist in the mathematics of computation, Nordsieck had an uncommon affinity for experiment and built here in Urbana the first computer to be used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Nordsieck Analog Computer.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Ph. D. is a science writer and an educator. She teaches college and high school physics and mathematics courses, and her writing has been published in popular science outlets such as WIRED, Scientific American, Physics World, and New Scientist. She earned a Ph. D. in Physics from UIUC in 2019 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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This story was published November 20, 2008.