Ian Aitchison
Born1936 (age 87–88)
Lancaster, Lancashire
Academic background
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

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.[2][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.[1][4]

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References

  1. ^ a b Writers Directory (St. James Press, 2005).
  2. ^ "Ian Aitchison", CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  3. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 11.
  4. ^ "Professors Emeritus", Oxford University Calendar. Retrieved 3 December 2019.


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