The current value of this award is $1500 (CDN). [Past Winners of this scholarship]. John David Jackson received his B. Sc. from the University of Western Ontario in 1946 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. He taught at McGill University for seven years and at the University of Illinois for ten before coming to Berkeley in 1967. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship (Princeton, 1956-57), a Ford Foundation Fellowship (CERN, 1963-64), and Visiting Research Fellowships at Cambridge (Clare Hall, 1970) and Oxford (Jesus College, 1988-89). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of a well known graduate text, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, 1962, 1975, 1998), as well Physics of Elementary Particles (Princeton Press, 1958) and Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics (W A Benjamin, 1962). He has contributed to numerous summer school lecture series, and for 17 years served as Editor of Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Service to the University of California includes Department Chair (1978-81), and Head of the Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1982-84). He retired from teaching in 1993 and is presently a Participating Retiree in the Physics Division, LBNL. Avocations: swimming (for exercise), hiking in the mountains, scientific bibliophily.
(excerpted from the Physics at Berkeley web pages) The Lillian Margaret & Walter David Jackson
The Scholarship was established by Dr. John David Jackson in memory of
his parents Lillian Margaret and Walter David Jackson to reward the
academic excellence of students entering the graduate program in the
Department of Physics. Awarded annually to a meritorious graduate
student in the Department of Physics. Preference will be given to
incoming graduate students. The selection will be made by the
Department of Physics. Consult the Graduate Program Office, Department
of Physics and Astronomy for application procedure.
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