Alan James Duncan | |
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| Born | November 4, 1938 Kingston, East Lothian, Scotland |
| Died | July 9, 1999 (aged 60) British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | University of Stirling |
Alan James Duncan FRSE FRSA (4 November 1938 – 9 July 1999) was a Scottish atomic physicist who created a metastable atomic hydrogen beam apparatus used to first observe the two-photon decay of metastable hydrogen and measure fundamental predictions of quantum theory.
The Science and Engineering Research Council of UK placed him highly in their publication Highlights in Physics (1985)