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Symon, Keith Randolph

In 1982 and 1983, he was acting director of the Madison Academic Computing Center and from 1983 to 1985, and acting director of the UW-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center. His textbook, Mechanics, has been a staple in physics classes since publication of the first edition in 1953. It has been published in multiple languages and is still in use around the world.