Harvard Project Physics

The project was centered at Harvard University, but drew from schools and educators from across the country.

The directors of this project were: F. James Rutherford, project coordinator (and after completion of the project, professor of science education at New York University); Gerald Holton, professor of physics and of the history of science at Harvard University; and Fletcher G. Watson, professor of science education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Project Physics course work was broken into six main subject areas, organized into separate books each called a "Project Physics Text and Handbook" or "Student Guide":[1] The books presented the material from a historical perspective, with aspects of human interest wrapped into the text.

Frequent references to historical works where concepts were first discovered and debated highlighted the drive to make physics a fundamental search for understanding of the universe.

[2] The texts and all other aids are now available for free on the Project Physics Collection web site.