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Most of us can name at least one special teacher who had extraordinary influence on our lives. I was privileged with being trained and mentored by several remarkable teachers who provided guideposts for my life in science.
Portions of this chapter appeared in John G. King’s obituary by Rainer Weiss and H. Frederick Dylla, in Physics Today 67, 11, 68 (2014).
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H.F. Dylla, J.H. Abrams, C.T. Hovland and J.G. King, Nature 291, 401–404 (1981)
An informative summary article on the PSSC project is given by Gilbert C. Finley, Amer. J. Phys. 28, 286 (1960); the PSSC films that have stood the test of time because real physicists were the actors are archived on the following site: PSSC Films-Academic Film Archive, http://www.afana.org/psscfilms.htm
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Dylla, H.F. (2020). The Master Teacher. In: Scientific Journeys. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55800-0_17
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