Dr. Steven Frautschi is a renowned physicist, especially known for discovering the Chew-Frautschi plots named after him. He received his Bachelors from Harvard University and his PhD in physics from Stanford University. He has been an NSF Fellow at Kyoto University, a research assistant at UC Berkeley, an assistant professor at Cornell University, and a visiting professor for the University of Paris and Pohang University in South Korea. He has been teaching at CalTech since 1962. He has won numerous awards and has written significant publications in physics.