At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

December 19, 2007 | Source: New York Times

Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor who has long had a cult following at MIT, has now emerged as an international Internet guru with his videotaped physics lectures, free online on MIT’s OpenCourseWare.

MIT recently expanded its online classes by opening a site aimed at high school students and teachers.