John David Jackson facts for kids

Quick facts for kids John David Jackson
Jackson autographing a copy of his classical electrodynamics textbook
Born	(1925-01-19)January 19, 1925 London, Ontario, Canada
Died	May 20, 2016 (age 91) Lansing, Michigan, United States
Nationality	American; naturalized, 1988
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario MIT
Awards	Hon. D.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1989
Scientific career
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.