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People - Faculty - Neil F. Comins

Neil F. Comins
Professor of Physics

• 1972  B.S., Cornell University
• 1974  M.S., University of Maryland
• 1978  Ph.D., University College, Cardiff

Office: 314 Bennett Hall

Phone #: (207)581-1037

EMail Link: Galaxy@maine.edu

URL:

Heavenly Errors
Sources of Misconceptions by Neil F. Comins from proceedings of Third International Seminar on Misconceptions and Educational Strategies in Science and Mathematics, held at Cornell University.
Authors' Guild - Neil Comins with links to all of his books, a biography, and links to purchase through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

For current resume, click here (PDF)

For links to Thomas Zeltwanger's thesis, click on one of the format
choices below:

• PDF format
• PS format

Research Interests:

• Science Education Research
• Galactic formation, structure, stability
• Evolution Stellar Stability
• Observational Astronomy (optical, radio)
• Computational Astrophysics
• General Relativity

Relevant Articles to Research

• An article based on "What If The Moon Didn't Exist?"
• Reprint of an Astronomy Magazine article "We Are All Star Stuff"
• Colliding galaxies program on the Web

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