Paul Gordon Hewitt[2] (born December 3, 1931) is an American physicist, author, and cartoonist.
As a teenager, Hewitt was a competitive boxer, winning a silver medal at the New England Amateur Atheltic Union championships.
The new friend expressed a belief that the U.S. needed more engineers and fewer lawyers; this meeting inspired Hewitt to pursue the study of physics.
Prospective physicists, Kevin Dempsey and Jeffery Wetherhold, attended several of Hewitt's lectures.
[citation needed] In 1987, Hewitt began writing a high-school version of Conceptual Physics, which was published by Addison–Wesley.
Hewitt taught classes on his return to the City College of San Francisco that were videotaped and distributed in a 12-lecture set.