Willis E. (Willis Eugene) Tower

Willis Eugene Tower was an American physics educator and textbook author born in 1871. He is credited on early science texts including Manual of Experimental Physics for Secondary Schools, Principles of Physics, and Physics, works that were created for classroom use and often written with co-authors such as Charles H. Smith, Charles M. Turton, Thomas D. Cope, and Fred Richardson Nichols.

The surviving online record for Tower is fairly sparse, but library and public-domain book catalogs show that his work was closely tied to physics instruction in the early 1900s. His books focus on explaining physical principles clearly and practically, suggesting a teacher interested in helping students connect scientific ideas with real experiments and everyday phenomena.

Available genealogical records indicate that he was born on June 5, 1871, and died on May 11, 1962. Even though biographical details are limited, his textbooks remain part of the historical record of American science education.