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British physicist
Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison (born 1936) is a physicist and retired academic who was Professor of Physics at the
University of Oxford between 1996 and 2003.
Career
Born in 1936,
[1] Aitchison read mathematics at
Peterhouse, Cambridge , graduating with a
BA in 1958; he then completed a
PhD in
theoretical physics there in 1961.
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[3]
Between 1961 and 1963, Aitchison was a research associate at
Brookhaven National Laboratory in
New York ; after a year at the
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in
France , he worked as a research associate at the
Cavendish Laboratory at the
University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1966. In 1966, he was elected a
fellow of
Worcester College, Oxford , and appointed a university
lecturer in theoretical physics; he was
awarded the title of
Professor of Physics in 1996 and retired in 2003. He remains an
emeritus professor at the
University of Oxford .
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Bibliography
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (
Macmillan , 1972).
(Co-editor with Jack E. Paton) Rudolf Peierls and Theoretical Physics: Proceedings of the symposium held in Oxford on July 11th & 12th, 1974, to mark the occasion of the retirement of Professor Sir Rudolph E. Peierls, F.R.S., C.B.E. (
Pergamon Press , 1977).
ISBN
0-08-020606-9 hbk.
(Co-authored with
A. J. G. Hey ) Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (1st ed.
Hilger and
University of Sussex Press , 1982; 2nd ed. 1989; 3rd ed.
Taylor and Francis , 2002;
4th ed., vols. 1 & 2
CRC Press , 2012).
An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories (
Cambridge University Press , 1982).
(Co-editor with
C. H. Llewellyn Smith and
J. E. Paton ) Plots, Quarks and Strange Particles: Proceedings of the Dalitz Conference 1990 (
World Scientific , 1991).
Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: An Elementary Introduction (
Cambridge University Press , 2007).
ISBN
9781139467056
References
^
a
b Writers Directory (
St. James Press , 2005).
^
"Ian Aitchison" , CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). Retrieved 3 December 2019.
^ The Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 11.
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"Professors Emeritus" , Oxford University Calendar . Retrieved 3 December 2019.
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