Francisco Esquembre and Félix García Clemente have been distinguished with the prestigious Excellence in Physics Education Award granted by the American Physical Society (APS)

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Two UMU teachers receive an international Physics award

These are the first Spaniards who receive this award from the American Physical Society

Efe 30.09.2019 | 14:41

Two UMU teachers receive an international Physics award

The professors of the University of Murcia (UMU) Francisco Esquembre and Félix García Clemente have been distinguished with the prestigious Excellence in Physics Education Award granted by the American Physical Society (APS) and which has valued "their sustained commitment to excellence in Physics teaching. "

These are the first Spaniards who receive this award , which recognizes their work in the framework of the "Open Source Physics" project with the "Easy Java / Javascript Simulations" computer tool, which is used to create scientific computer simulations to facilitate the learning of science.

Esquembre, Professor of Mathematical Analysis, and García Clemente, Professor of Architecture and Computer Technology will collect the award, which scientists also have as Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, in Washington in April 2020.

The award joins other important awards achieved by the 'Open Source Physics' project, such as the "Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE)" awarded by the Science magazine in 2011, the "Excellence Award for a Multimedia Resource" "of the European Association" Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning ", in 2015, and the UNESCO King Al-Khalifa prize, for the use of information technologies in education, also in 2015.

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