| Authorised form of name | Ziman; John Michael (1925 - 2005) |
| Dates | 1925 - 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | New Zealand |
| Date of birth | 16/05/1925 |
| Date of death | 02/01/2005 |
| Occupation | Theoretical physicist |
| Research field | Solid state physics |
| Science and society |
| Activity | Education:
Hamilton High School, New Zealand; Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand; DPhil in Mathematics and Physics, Balliol College, Oxford
Career:
Junior lecturer in mathematics (1951-1953) and then Pressed Steel Company Research Fellow, Oxford University (1953-1954); Lecturer in Physics, Cambridge University (1954-1964); Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1957-1964); Editor of Cambridge Review (1958-1959); Professor of Theoretical Physics (1964-1969), Melville Wills Professor of Physics (1969-1976), director H H Wills Physics Laboratory and Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics (1976-1982), University of Bristol; won the Airey Neave Memorial Scholarship with John Humphries and Paul Sieghart for their findings on abuse of human rights of scientists (1981), published as 'The World of Science and the Rule of Law' (1986); visiting professor, Department of Social and Economic Studies, Imperial College, London (1982-1987); Chairman, Council for Science and Society (1976-1990); Chairman, European Association for the Study of Science and Society (1982-1986); director of Science Policy Support Group (1986-1991); member of International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (1970-1979); member of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; chairman of Epistemology Group studying the evolution of knowledge and invention (1994). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1967 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Rutherford Memorial 1968; Bernal 1983; Medawar 1995 |
| Relationships | Married (1951) Rosemary Dixon (died 2001); married Joan Solomon |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 479-491, plate, by Sir Michael Berry and John F Nye
Obituary in Times (1 February 2005); Guardian (2 February 2005); Telegraph (17 February 2005)
References:
Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281
P Lipton, 'The science of science. Real science: what it is, and what it means, by J Ziman' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 108-111 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/103648043 |
| Code | NA1429 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1967/32 | Ziman, John Michael: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HWT/6/11 | Correspondence and papers regarding International Centre for Theoretical Physics and UNESCO medium term objectives for 1975-1980 | January - February 1973 |
| HWT/14/1 | Correspondence and papers | May - October 1973 |
| HWT/31/29 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | July - August 1976 |
| HWT/31/22 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | November - December 1974 |
| HWT/6/12 | Correspondence and papers regarding International Centre for Theoretical Physics | March 1973 |
| HWT/14/2 | Correspondence and papers | January - May 1974 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8382 | Ziman, John Michael | 1985 |
| IM/GA/WRS/9682 | Ziman, John Michael | nd |
| HWT/31/25 | Royal Society Scientific Information Committee | November 1975 |
| HWT/6/10 | Progress report on the International University | January - December 1972 |
| HWT/33/11 | H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign Secretary | July - December 1970 |
| RR/79/89 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'Quantum hydrodynamics and the theory of liquid helium' by John Michael Ziman | 5 May 1953 |
| RR/79/168 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of diamond at low temperatures' by R Berman, Franz Eugen Simon and John Michael Ziman | 18 July 1953 |