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John David Jackson
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Jackson autographing a copy of his classical electrodynamics textbook
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| Born | January 19, 1925 |
| Died | May 20, 2016 (age 91) |
| Nationality | American; naturalized, 1988 |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario MIT |
| Awards | Hon. D.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1989 |
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| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | MIT McGill University University of Illinois University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Frederick Weisskopf |
| Doctoral students | Gordon L. Kane Chris Quigg |
John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American physics. He was the professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
He was a theoretical physicist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was well known for his many publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electromagnetism.
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