Ian Aitchison
British physicist
Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison (born 1936) is a British physicist and retired academic who was Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2003.
Career
Born in 1936, Aitchison read mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1958; he then completed a PhD in theoretical physics there in 1961.
Between 1961 and 1963, Aitchison was a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, United States; after a year at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France, he worked as a research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1966. In 1966, he was elected a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and appointed a university lecturer in theoretical physics; he was awarded the title of Professor of Physics in 1996 and retired in 2003. He remains an emeritus professor at the University of Oxford.
Bibliography
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (Macmillan, 1972).
(Co-editor with Jack E. Paton) Rudolf Peierls and Theoretical Physics: Proceedings of the symposium held in Oxford on July 11th & 12th, 1974, to mark the occasion of the retirement of Professor Sir Rudolph E. Peierls, F.R.S., C.B.E. (Pergamon Press, 1977). ISBN 0-08-020606-9 hbk.
(Co-authored with A. J. G. Hey) Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (1st ed. Hilger and University of Sussex Press, 1982; 2nd ed.
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