# Walter Lewin

> A physicist whose lecture demos - chalk arcs tracing pendulum swings, equations sung in a Dutch accent - became some of the most-watched teaching on early YouTube, until MIT scrubbed his name from its servers in 2014.

*Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/walter-lewin

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1936-01-29
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Walter Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics at Delft in 1965 and joined MIT's physics faculty the following year, where he would stay for 43 years. His astrophysics work included the first discovery of a rotating neutron star through all-sky balloon surveys and X-ray detection research via satellites and observatories. He built a reputation as a gifted teacher, and when MIT posted his lectures on OpenCourseWare and later edX, they found a massive audience - millions watched him conduct elaborate in-class experiments and scrawl equations with theatrical flair. He retired in 2009. In December 2014, an MIT investigation determined that Lewin had sexually harassed an online student in a MITx course, and the university revoked his Professor Emeritus title and removed his lecture videos from its platforms.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 21.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 10.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #66
- **Category rank:** #25
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,850,000

## Platforms
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEHVhv0SBMpP75JbzJShqw (@@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259, 1,850,000 followers)

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- [വാൾട്ടർ ലെവിൻ](https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BE%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B5%BB)
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- [வால்டர் லீவின்](https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726728)

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