David Jeffrey Griffiths (born December 5, 1942) is an American physicist and educator.

He was on the faculty of Reed College from 1978 through 2009, becoming the Howard Vollum Professor of Science before his retirement.

His doctoral work, Covariant Approach to Massless Field Theory in the Radiation Gauge on theoretical particle physics,[4] was supervised by Sidney Coleman.

Griffiths was the recipient of the 1997 Robert A. Millikan Award reserved for "those who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education".

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