John Boardman (art Historian), Boardman, Sir John
John Boardman may refer to: * John Boardman (art historian) (1927–2024), British classical art historian and archaeologist * John Boardman (physicist) (1932–2025), American physicist, science fiction fan, author and gaming authority * John Boardman (merchant) (1758–1813), early settler of Troy, New York * John Joseph Boardman John Joseph Boardman (1893 - 1978) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and Titular Bishop of Gunela. Biography Boardman was born on November 7, 1893, in Brook ...

John Boardman (art Historian)
Sir John Boardman, (; 20 August 1927 – 23 May 2024) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian of ancient Greek art. Educated at Chigwell School in Essex and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Boardman worked as assistant director of the British School at Athens between 1952 and 1955 before taking up a position as an assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, part of the University of Oxford. He succeeded John Beazley as Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the university in 1978, remaining in post until his retirement in 1994. Boardman's academic work focused on the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, with a particular focus on Greek colonisation, jewellery and vase-painting. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him its Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was also awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Personal life and education Boardman was born in Ilford, Essex, on 20 August 1927. He was educated at Chigwell Schoo ...
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John Boardman (physicist)
Jack Melton "John" Boardman (September 8, 1932 – May 29, 2025) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics and astronomy at Queens College and then Brooklyn College (where he spent the majority of his career) in New York City; an internationally renowned science fiction fan, author and fanzine publisher; and a gaming authority. Academic career Boardman received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1952 and his M.S. from Iowa State University in 1956. He then attended Florida State University to begin his doctoral studies. However, he was expelled in 1957 due to his involvement with the Inter-Civic Council and more specifically for inviting three Black Florida A&M University exchange students to a Christmas party. He ultimately received his Ph.D. in physics from Syracuse University in 1962; his doctoral thesis was titled '' Quantization of the General Theory of Relativity''. His publications include "Spherical Gravitational Waves" (a collaboration with ...
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John Boardman (merchant)
John Boardman (1758–1813) was a merchant and one of the earliest settlers of Troy, New York. Boardman was born in Preston, Litchfield Country, Connecticut, the fourth of a brood of six. In 1788, he acquired a plot in farmland that had been subdivided by the Van der Heyden family in the previous year. Other settlers of his generation included Stephen Ashley, Benjamin Covell, Samuel Gale, Benjamin Smith, Philip Heartt, Anthony Goodspeed, Mahlon Taylor, Ephraim Morgan, and Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. As one writer later reminisced of these pioneers, “they were few in number, and possessed but little substance; but they were men of courage and activity…. They were men of shrewd minds. They saw that water power here abounded – and that River navigation to this point was easy. They judged that with its natural advantages, their enterprise could not fail.” On the night of January 5, 1789, Boardman and other residents gathered in Ashley’s Inn voted to give the settlement a ...
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