John David Jackson (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John David Jackson (physicist)

American physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1925

Place of Birth: London, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 20-May-2016

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, non-fiction writer, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident.
Jackson's high standards and admonitory vocabulary are the subject of an amusing memorial volume by his son Ian Jackson.