John David Jackson (physicist)
John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Jackson in 2013 | |
| Born | January 19, 1925 London, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | May 20, 2016 (aged 91) Lansing, Michigan, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario MIT |
| Known for | Classical Electrodynamics |
| Awards | Hon. D.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1989 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics Particle physics Electrodynamics |
| 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 Richard D. Field |
Jackson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was well known for his work in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electrodynamics.
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