Louis Aub Bloomfield (born October 11, 1956) is a physics professor at the University of Virginia.
Bloomfield became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994 for his work on cluster magnetism and has received several other significant honors.
[1] Bloomfield attended Amherst College, winning the LeRoy Apker Award in his senior year.
[1] He developed and began teaching a course entitled "How Things Work" in 1991, which he has since taught to thousands of students.
This course's success, along with the publishing of a textbook on the subject under the same title, has led to Bloomfield doing a number of interviews and explanations as a guest for large news companies.