David Hestenes

David Orlin Hestenes
David Hestenes, ASU physicist and education theorist, March 2019 at ASU SciAPP conference
BornMay 21, 1933 (1933-05-21) (age 91)
Chicago
Alma materUCLA
Pacific Lutheran University
Known forGeometric algebra
AwardsOersted Medal (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsArizona State University

David Orlin Hestenes (born May 21, 1933) is a theoretical physicist and science educator. He is best known as chief architect of geometric algebra as a unified language for mathematics and physics,[1] and as founder of Modelling Instruction, a research-based program to reform K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.[2]

For more than 30 years, he was employed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Arizona State University (ASU), where he retired with the rank of research professor and is now emeritus.

  1. ^ D. Hestenes: A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics. In: J.S.R. Chisholm/A.K. Common (eds.): Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics (Reidel: Dordrecht/Boston, 1986), pp. 1–23.
  2. ^ Home page on Modeling Instruction http://modeling.asu.edu/