John David Jackson | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Jackson_textbook_(cropped).jpg) 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 |
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.[1][2]
Jackson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was well known for his work in nuclear and particle physics,[3] as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electrodynamics.[4][5]
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NASwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jackson, J. D. (1998) [1962]. Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-30932-1. OCLC 535998.
- ^ Saslow, Wayne M. (1999). "Book review: Classical electrodynamics, by John David Jackson". Foundations of Physics. 29 (1): 133–135. Bibcode:1999FoPh...29..133S. doi:10.1023/a:1018821305089.