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28 May 2017 to 2 June 2017
Queen's University
America/Toronto timezone
Welcome to the 2017 CAP Congress! / Bienvenue au congrès de l'ACP 2017!

J. D. Jackson, Physicist, Teacher, Citizen

1 Jun 2017, 08:30
30m
BioSci 1103 (Queen's University)

BioSci 1103

Queen's University

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP) R1-2 History of Physics (DHP) | Histoire de la physique (DHP)

Speaker

Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

I will recount some vignettes from the life, work, and engagements of the late John David Jackson—Western Ontario undergraduate, McGill faculty member, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley— whose magisterial textbook Classical Electrodynamics has shaped graduate education for more than a half century.

Author

Prof. Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Presentation materials