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Eric Mazur is a physicist and educator at Harvard University, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets. Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics and condensed matter physics. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Leiden University. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. November 1954
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Eric Mazur Quotes

“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.”

explaining his techniques of active learning, in From Questions to Concepts: Interactive Teaching in Physics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg, Harvard BokCenter, 2008.

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