Dr. Jearl Dalton Walker is an American physicist known for his book The Flying Circus of Physics and for teaching physics at Cleveland State University. He edited Fundamentals of Physics with Halliday and Resnick and popularized physics through demonstrations, including those on PBS’s Kinetic Karnival. Born in Pensacola, Florida, raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he graduated from MIT in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1973. Walker authored The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American (1978-1988) and hosted The Kinetic Karnival of Jearl Walker (1981-1982). He received the Outstanding Teaching Award from Cleveland State University in 2005, which was later named in his honor.
