John Hardy (physicist)
John Christopher Hardy (born July 9, 1941 in Montreal ) is a Canadian experimental nuclear physicist .
Hardy studied at McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1961, a master's degree in nuclear physics in 1963 and a doctorate in 1965. As a post-doctoral student he was at Oxford University and from 1967 to 1969 Miller Fellow at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley University. From 1970 he was at the Canadian Nuclear Physics Laboratory (AECL) in the Chalk River Laboratories , where he became department head for their TASCC (Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron). In 1997 he became a professor at Texas A&M University and group leader at their Cyclotron Institute.
In 1976/77 he was a visiting scientist at the ISOLDE experiment at CERN .
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada . In 1976 he received the Canadian Herzberg Medal and in 1981 the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. 1992 to 1995 he was Vice President of the Royal Society of Canada. From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the APS Nuclear Physics Committee.
In 2006 he and Ian Towner received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for precision tests of the electroweak interaction ( unitarity of the CKM matrix ) in super-permitted beta decays . These are beta decays of angular momentum and parity quantum numbers according to which a gamma ray transition is prohibited.
He also dealt with exotic nuclei, delayed decay in nuclei (that is, short-lived intermediate states, the decay products of which are noticeable by a delay compared to the decay product of the longer-lived subsequent state), transfer reactions and determination of nuclear mass.
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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| SURNAME | Hardy, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hardy, John Christopher (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian experimental nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |