Princeton Companion to Physics

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Editorial Team Members

Meet the editors and contributors guiding Princeton Companion to Physics, including senior scholars, early-career researchers, and international collaborators.

Overview for educators

This volume outlines aims, structure, and intended audience for educators and researchers seeking a comprehensive, thematically organized reference to core physics ideas.

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Editorial Board

A meticulously arranged oak library table covered with open physics reference books, each page dense with crisp equations, diagrams of wave interference, and annotated graphs. A single sleek silver laptop displays a structured table of contents titled “Companion to Physics.” The table sits in a quiet, high-ceilinged academic reading room lined with tall, blurred bookshelves in the background. Soft, diffused daylight enters through high windows, creating gentle reflections on the laptop screen and subtle shadows in the page folds. Captured at eye level with a shallow depth of field, focusing tightly on the pages and screen, the photographic realism and clean, professional aesthetic evoke scholarly rigor and organized, authoritative knowledge.

Aarav Sharma

A pristine black chalkboard filling most of the frame, its surface covered with elegantly written white and colored chalk equations: Maxwell’s equations, Schrödinger’s equation, E=mc², and carefully drawn space-time diagrams and wave functions. Chalk dust lightly coats the bottom edge and forms a faint cloud near smudged portions. The chalkboard is mounted on a simple, well-lit lecture hall wall, with blurred wooden paneling and a hint of a projection screen in the distance. Overhead fluorescent lighting casts even, soft illumination with minimal glare, highlighting the chalk’s texture. Shot straight-on with sharp focus and symmetrical composition, the photographic image feels precise, contemplative, and academically serious, suggesting a concise visual index of great physics ideas.

Mateo García

A meticulously arranged oak library table covered with open physics reference books, each page dense with crisp equations, diagrams of wave interference, and annotated graphs. A single sleek silver laptop displays a structured table of contents titled “Companion to Physics.” The table sits in a quiet, high-ceilinged academic reading room lined with tall, blurred bookshelves in the background. Soft, diffused daylight enters through high windows, creating gentle reflections on the laptop screen and subtle shadows in the page folds. Captured at eye level with a shallow depth of field, focusing tightly on the pages and screen, the photographic realism and clean, professional aesthetic evoke scholarly rigor and organized, authoritative knowledge.

Zuri Ndlovu

A pristine black chalkboard filling most of the frame, its surface covered with elegantly written white and colored chalk equations: Maxwell’s equations, Schrödinger’s equation, E=mc², and carefully drawn space-time diagrams and wave functions. Chalk dust lightly coats the bottom edge and forms a faint cloud near smudged portions. The chalkboard is mounted on a simple, well-lit lecture hall wall, with blurred wooden paneling and a hint of a projection screen in the distance. Overhead fluorescent lighting casts even, soft illumination with minimal glare, highlighting the chalk’s texture. Shot straight-on with sharp focus and symmetrical composition, the photographic image feels precise, contemplative, and academically serious, suggesting a concise visual index of great physics ideas.

Leila Haddad