John David Jackson
John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016[1][2]) was a Canadian–American physics. He was the professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
John David Jackson | |
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.jpg.webp) Jackson autographing a copy of his classical electrodynamics textbook | |
| Born | January 19, 1925 |
| Died | May 20, 2016 (age 91) |
| Nationality | American; naturalized, 1988 |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario MIT |
| Awards | Hon. D.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1989 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | MIT McGill University University of Illinois University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Frederick Weisskopf |
| Doctoral students | Gordon L. Kane Chris Quigg |
He was a theoretical physicist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was well known for his many publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electromagnetism.[3]
References
- "John Jackson Obituary (1925 - 2016) - Lansing, Formerly of Berkeley, Calif.,, MI - Lansing State Journal". Legacy.com.
- Quigg, Chris (21 May 2016). "J. D. Jackson, meticulous scholar, revered teacher, master of Classical Electrodynamics, my mentor, & very fine person, has died at 91. RIP".
- Jackson, J. D. (1998) [1962]. Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-30932-1. OCLC 535998.
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