Residence New Zealand Fields Nuclear physics | Name John Dodd Institutions University of Otago Institution University of Otago | |
Born 19 April 1922
Hastings, New Zealand ( 1922-04-19 ) Thesis Proton scattering experiments: a study of the elastic and inelastic scattering of protons from gold, aluminium, magnesium and carbon (1952) Died May 20, 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand Notable awards Hector Memorial Medal (1976) | ||
Alma mater University of Birmingham | ||
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, Dodd attended the University of Otago, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1946. 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.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1964, he won the society's Hector Medal, then the highest prize in New Zealand science, in 1976.
Selected works
References
John Newton Dodd Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA