John Clive Ward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Clive Ward

British-Australian nuclear physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1924

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 06-May-2000

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Clive Ward, (1 August 1924 – 6 May 2000) was a British-Australian physicist.
He introduced the Ward–Takahashi identity, also known as "Ward Identity" (or "Ward's Identities").
Andrei Sakharov said Ward was one of the titans of quantum electrodynamics.
He made significant contributions to quantum solid-state physics, statistical mechanics and the Ising model. Ward was one of the authors of the Standard Model of gauge particle interactions: his contributions were published in a series of papers he co-authored with Abdus Salam.
He is also credited with being an early advocate of the use of Feynman diagrams.
It has been said that physicists have made use of his principles and developments "often without knowing it, and generally without quoting him."In 1955, Ward was recruited to work at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.
There, he independently derived a version of the Teller-Ulam design, for which he has been called the "father of the British H-bomb".