John Newton Dodd
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John Newton Dodd | |
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Born | Hastings, New Zealand |
19 April 1922
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Dunedin, New Zealand |
Residence | New Zealand |
Fields | Atomic spectroscopy, nuclear physics |
Institutions | University of Otago |
Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
Thesis | Proton scattering experiments: a study of the elastic and inelastic scattering of protons from gold, aluminium, magnesium and carbon (1952) |
Notable awards | Hector Medal (1976) |
John Newton "Jack" Dodd (19 April 1922 – 20 May 2005) was a New Zealand physicist who worked in the field of atomic spectroscopy.
Born in Hastings in 1922,[1] Dodd attended the University of Otago, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1946.[2] After a PhD at the University of Birmingham, he returned to the University of Otago to take up a lectureship. He was awarded a professorial chair in 1965 and retired in 1988.[1]
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1964,[3] he won the society's Hector Medal, then the highest prize in New Zealand science, in 1976.[4]
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