# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-sears
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:08:52.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-sears"
name: "Francis Sears"
slug: "francis-sears"
description: "Francis Weston Sears was an American physicist and instructor who was authored multiple textbooks in physics. He is best known for co-authoring University Physics, an introductory physics textbook, with Mark Zemansky. The book—colloquially known as \"Sears and Zemansky\"—was first published in 1949. Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973."
tagline: "American physicist (1898–1975)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-10-01"
deathDate: "1975-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "فرانسيس سيرز"
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    title: "فرانسيس سيرز"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Sears_(Physiker)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Sears"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Weston_Sears"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Sears"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump