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Authorised form of nameWard; John Clive (1924 - 2000)
Dates1924 - 2000
NationalityBritish
Australian
Place of birthEast Ham, Newham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth01/08/1924
Place of deathVancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America
Date of death06/05/2000
OccupationPhysicist
Research fieldPhysics
Solid state physics
Nuclear physics
Quantum electrodynamics
Hydrogen bomb
ActivityEducation:
Chalkwell Elementary School; Westcliff High School for Boys; Bishop Stortford College; Merton College, University of Oxford, BA in engineering science (1946), DPhil (1949)
Career:
Graduate assistant to Maurice Pryce, University of Oxford (1946); mathematics tutor, St Andrews College, University of Sydney(1947); Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship, University of Oxford (1948-1950); membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1951-1952, 1954-1955, 1960-1961); Bell Laboratories (1952-1953); Lectureship, University of Adelaide (1953-1954); Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston (1955); visiting professor, University of Maryland (1956-1957); University of Miami, Florida (1957-1958); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1959); Johns Hopkins University (1961-1966); foundation Professor of physics, Macquarie University, Sydney (1967-1984); retired (1984)
Medals/Awards:
Guthrie Medal 1981; Dirac Medal 1981, Heineman Prize 1982
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1965
Age at election40
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1983
SourceSources:
Wikipedia; Ward, J C, 'Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist' in Optics Journal (USA), 30 July 2004
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/1266157704200444440003
CodeNA4836
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WRS/9380Ward, John Clivend
EC/1965/30Ward, John Clive: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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