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Prof. Howard Brody, Physicist

Dr. Howard Brody is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the academic and Technical advisor to both the men's and women's tennis teams. He played varsity tennis and earned his bachelor's degree at MIT and his master's and doctoral degrees at Cal Tech. During the spring of 1991, he was interim coach of the Pennsylvania men's varsity tennis team.

For many years his primary field of research was elementary particle physics and high energy nuclear physics, working at laboratories in the US and in Europe. Recently he has been investigating the physics of sports, particularly tennis. He has written many papers and articles on the subject, given numerous lectures and talks on tennis, and done several television programs explaining the science behind tennis, football, and baseball.

Professor Brody is a member the International Tennis Federation Technical Commission, the USTA Sports Science Committee and the USTA Technical Committee, science advisor to the United States Professional Tennis Registry, technical advisor to the United States Racquet Stringers Association, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sports Engineering, and on the technical advisory panel of Tennis Magazine. His book Tennis Science for Tennis Players was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1987. He and international known tennis coach and television personality Vic Braden are featured in a video "The Science and Myths of Tennis."

As one of the six principal authors who have written a new NSF sponsored high school physics course (Active Physics), he was responsible for the chapters dealing with the physics of sports.

In 1996 he received the USPTR Plagenhoef award for sports science.