Eric Mazur is a Dutch-born American physicist and educator at Harvard University, born on November 14, 1954, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets. His research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter physics and peer instruction. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Leiden University, and he served as the President of Optica, formerly the Optical Society, in 2017. Peer instruction, the teaching method with which his name is associated, was popularized by him at Harvard in the early 1990s.
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Eric Mazur (born November 14, 1954) is a Dutch-born American physicist and educator at Harvard University, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets.
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Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter physics and peer instruction.
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Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter physics and peer instruction.
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Peer instruction is a teaching method popularized by Harvard Professor Eric Mazur in the early 1990s.
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