John David Jackson (physicist)

John David Jackson
Jackson in 2013
Born	(1925-01-19)January 19, 1925 London, Ontario, Canada
Died	May 20, 2016(2016-05-20) (aged 91) Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality	Canadian American
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario MIT
Known for	Classical Electrodynamics
Awards	Hon. D.Sc., University of Western Ontario, 1989
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics Particle physics Electrodynamics
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 Richard D. Field

John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.^[1][2]

Jackson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was well known for his work in nuclear and particle physics,^[3] as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electrodynamics.^[4][5]