Frederick Reif
Personal
information
Emeritus professor of physics and education.
(University of California at Berkeley &
Carnegie Mellon University)
E-mail: freif@andrew.cmu.edu
Brief biography
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1927:
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Born
in Vienna, Austria. |
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1939-1941:
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France |
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1941
- É: |
USA |
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1944-1948:
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Columbia
College (and US Army) |
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1948-1953:
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Harvard
University (Ph.D. in physics, 1953) |
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1953-1960:
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University
of Chicago |
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(Assistant
professor of physics) |
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1960-1989: |
University
of California at Berkeley |
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(Professor
of physics and education) |
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1989-2000 |
Carnegie
Mellon University |
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(Professor
of physics and education) |
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2000 |
Emeritus
professor |
Selected publications
Condensed-matter physics
Reif, F. & Purcell, E. M. (1953). Nuclear magnetic
resonance in solid hydrogen.
Physical Review,
91, 631.
Reif, F. (1955). Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of
imperfect ionic crystals. Physical Review, 100,
1597.
Reif, F. (1957). Study of superconducting Hg by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. Physical Review, 106, 208.
Cohen, M. H. & Reif, F. (1957). Quadrupole
effects in nuclear magnetic resonance studies of solids. In F. Seitz (Ed.), Solid state physics, vol. 5, pp.
321-438. New York: Academic Press.
Reif, F. & Meyer, L. (1960). Study of superfluidity
in liquid He by ion motion. Physical Review, 119, 1164.
Rayfield, G. W.
& Reif, F. (1964). Quantized vortex rings in
superfluid helium. Physical
Review, 136, A 1194.
Reif, F. (1965). Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Reif, F. (1967). Statistical Physics (Berkeley Physics Course, volume 5).
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Surko, C. M., Packard, R. E.,
Dick, G. J., & Reif, F. (1970).
Spectroscopic study of the luminescence of liquid
helium in the vacuum ultraviolet. Physical Review Letters, 24, 657.
Reif, F. (1970). Experimental study of superfluid
helium from a microscopic point of view:
Ions, vortices, and "excitons". In N. Wiser & D. J. Amit, (Eds.), Quantum
fluids, pp. 165-249. New
York: Gordon and Breach.
Reif, F. (1999). Thermal physics in the introductory physics course:
Why and how to teach it from a unified atomic perspective. American Journal of Physics, 67, 1051-1062.
Cognitive science and
education
Reif, F. (1969). Science education for non-science students. Science, 164,
1032.
Reif, F. (1974). Educational challenges for the University. Science, 184, 537-542.
Reif, F., Larkin, J. H.,
& Brackett, G. C. (1976). Teaching general learning and problem-solving skills. American Journal of Physics, 44, 212-217.
Larkin, J. H. & Reif, F. (1976). Analysis and teaching
of a general skill for studying scientific text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 431-440.
Reif, F., & St. John, M.
(1979). Teaching physicists' thinking skills in
the laboratory. American Journal of Physics, 47,
950-957.
Eylon, B. & Reif, F. (1984). Effects of knowledge organization on task performance. Cognition and Instruction, 1,
5-44.
Heller, J. I. & Reif, F.
(1984). Prescribing effective human
problem-solving processes: Problem
description in physics. Cognition and Instruction, 1,
177-216.
Labudde, P.,
Reif, F., & Quinn, L. (1988). Facilitation of scientific concept learning by interpretation
procedures and diagnosis. International Journal of
Science Education, 10, 81-98.
Reif,
F. & Larkin, J. H. (1991).
Cognition in scientific and everyday domains: Comparison and learning implications. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 28, 733-760.
Reif,
F. & Allen, S. (1992).
Cognition for interpreting scientific concepts: A study of acceleration. Cognition and Instruction, 9, 1-44.
Reif,
F. (1995). Millikan Lecture
1994: Understanding and teaching
important scientific thought processes.
American Journal
of Physics, 63, 17-32.
Reif, F. & Scott, L. A. (1999). Teaching
scientific thinking skills: Students and computers coaching each other. American Journal of Physics,
67, 819-831.
Bhavnani, S. K., Peck, F. A., and
Reif, F. (2008, May). Strategy-Based
Instruction: Lessons Learned in Teaching the Effective and Efficient Use of
Computer Applications. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 15 (1), 2:1-2:43.
Reif, F. (2008). Applying cognitive science to
education: Thinking and learning in scientific and other complex domains.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.