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With appropriate exceptions as needed for the wonderful people on this
list, _being_ a _real_ physicist (as per your definition) does not
guarantee that someone can teach it well. I would think the students (and
parents) would (i.e. should) want someone who is a _real_ physics
_teacher_. In many cases such physics teachers could also be real
physicists, but each set (real physicists and real physics teachers) has
members not in the other set. The intersection of the two sets may be the
ideal, but for introductory physics students parents should prefer a real
teacher/non physicist over a real physicist/non teacher.