Derek Jackson

Derek Jackson
Born
Derek Ainslie Jackson

(1906-06-23)23 June 1906
Died20 February 1982(1982-02-20) (aged 75)
Lausanne, Switzerland
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forAtomic physics
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth John
(m. 1931; div. 1935)

(m. 1936; div. 1951)

Janetta Woolley
(m. 1951; div. 1956)

Consuelo Eyre
(m. 1957; div. 1959)

(m. 1966; div. 1967)

Marie Christine Reille
(m. 1968)
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSpectroscopy
InstitutionsClarendon Laboratory, Oxford
Doctoral advisorFrederick A. Lindemann

Derek Ainslie Jackson, OBE, DFC, AFC, FRS[1] (23 June 1906 – 20 February 1982) was a British physicist.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b Kuhn, H. G.; Hartley, Christopher (1983). "Derek Ainslie Jackson. 23 June 1906 – 20 February 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 29: 268–296. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0012. JSTOR 769805.
  2. ^ Bleaney, B. (2001). "Derek Ainslie Jackson (1906–1982): Some recollections of a great European spectroscopist". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 55 (2): 285–287. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2001.0144. JSTOR 532101. S2CID 73248246.
  3. ^ Jack Morrell (2004). "Jackson, Derek Ainslie (1906–1982)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31279. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)