Person
Ward, John Clive (1924 - 2000)
FRS
- Born
- 1 August 1924
London, England - Died
- 6 May 2000
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
John Ward was a physicist who made fundamental contributions in quantum electrodynamics, elementary particle physics, solid-state physics and quantum statistics and the Ising model. He is known for the Ward-Takahashi identity (also known as the Ward Identity). With Abdus Salam he wrote on the standard model of gauge particle interactions. He was an early advocate of the use of Feynman diagrams. Ward published only about 20 papers, but his work was highly influential in that of other researchers and earned for Ward several highly regarded awards. For 20 years Ward worked at a number of universities, including Adelaide, Florida, the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Johns Hopkins, as well as the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in the United Kingdom. Between 1966 and 1984 Ward was Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales, building the Department from scratch and successfully advocating that the University award Bachelor of Science degrees as well as the standard Bachelor of Arts.
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Chronology
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- 1952 - 1953
- Career position - Visiting researcher, Bell Laboratories, U.S.A
- 1953 - 1954
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Adelaide
- 1955
- Career position - At Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston
- 1955 - 1956
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- 1956 - 1957
- Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
- 1957 - 1959
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Miami, U.S.A.
- 1960 - 1961
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- 1961 - 1965
- Career position - Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- 1965 - 1966
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
- 1965 - 2000
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1966 - 1984
- Career position - Foundation Professor of Physics, Macquarie University
- 1981
- Award - Guthrie Medal, Institute of Physics
- 1981
- Award - Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales and the Australian Institute of Physics
- 1982
- Award - Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics
- 1983
- Award - Hughes Medal, Royal Society, London
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Ward, J. C.; edited by Duarte, F. J., Memoirs of a theoretical physicist (Rochester, NY: Optical journal, 2004), 39 pp. http://www.laserreviewers.com/JCWard.pdf. Details
Journal Articles
- Dalitz, Richard H.; and Duarte, Frank J., 'John Clive Ward', Physics Today, 53 (10) (2000), 99-100. Details
- Dombey, Norman, 'John Clive Ward, 1 August 1924 - 6 May 2000, elected FRS 1965', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 70 (2021), 419-40, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0023. Details
- Duarte, F. J., 'The probability amplitude equation of quantum entanglement: the Australian connection', Australian physics, 50 (1) (2013), 12-4. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q364619. Details
- 'Ward, John Clive (1924-2000)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475002. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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