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11 Facts About Lou Bloomfield

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Louis Aub Bloomfield was born on October 11,1956 and is a physics professor at the University of Virginia.

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Lou Bloomfield is often referenced as a physics authority in major news publications.

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Lou Bloomfield was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 11,1956.

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Lou Bloomfield lived in Cleveland, Ohio and Urbana, Illinois, graduating from Urbana High School in 1974.

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Lou Bloomfield attended Amherst College, winning the LeRoy Apker Award in his senior year.

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Lou Bloomfield was most interested in medicine after graduating from Amherst, but his physics professors pressured him to apply to three prestigious physics programs in addition to taking the MCAT and applying to medical school at Johns Hopkins University.

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Lou Bloomfield began teaching at the University of Virginia two years later after a postdoc at Bell Laboratories.

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Lou Bloomfield began teaching physics at the University of Virginia in 1985.

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Lou Bloomfield developed and began teaching a course entitled "How Things Work" in 1991, which he has since taught to thousands of students.

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Lou Bloomfield worked with UVA to create an instructional video on social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Lou Bloomfield has expertise in the field of borosilicate materials and has developed multiple products using this technology.