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,
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, 2005). Aitchison read mathematics at
Peterhouse, Cambridge
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, graduating with a
BA in 1958; he then completed a
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in
theoretical physics there in 1961.
Between 1961 and 1963, Aitchison was a research associate at
Brookhaven National Laboratory in
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; after a year at the
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in
France, he worked as a research associate at the
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at the
University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1966. In 1966, he was elected a
fellow of
Worcester College, Oxford
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, and appointed a university
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in theoretical physics; he was
awarded the title of
Professor of Physics in 1996 and retired in 2003. He remains an
emeritus
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professor at the
University of Oxford.
''Oxford University Calendar''. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
Bibliography
* ''Relativistic Quantum Mechanics'' (Macmillan
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, 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). 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
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, 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).
References
Living people
1936 births
Theoretical physicists
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Oxford
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