Peter E. Hodgson

Peter Edward Hodgson (born November 27, 1928 in London , † December 8, 2008 ) was a British nuclear physicist .

Hodgson studied physics at Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and a doctorate in 1951 with George Paget Thomson . In his dissertation he was one of the first to identify the K meson and its decay into three pions, and to estimate its mass. He then carried out research on nuclear physics with Harrie Massey at University College London and, due to his work, was brought to Oxford University by Rudolf Peierls and Denys Wilkinson in 1958 , where he led the group for theoretical nuclear physics, became a lecturer and a fellow of Corpus Christi College . He stayed there for the rest of his career.

He also wrote books on environmental problems and (as a staunch Catholic) science and religion and philosophy of physics. He was active in the British Atomic Scientists Association and from 1952 to 1959 in their council and 1953 to 1955 editor of their journal. In his endeavor to combine science and religion, he was affiliated with the Templeton Foundation , the Newman Association, and he was President and Bulletin of the Pax Romana Science Secretariat .

During his time at Oxford he received a D.Sc. of the University of London .

Fonts

Books on nuclear physics:

• "The Optical Model of Elastic Scattering", Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963
  • Reprint in Hodgson The nucleon optical potential , World Scientific 1994
• Nuclear Reactions and Nuclear Structure , Oxford University Press 1971
• Nuclear Heavy-Ion Reactions , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1978
• Growth Points in Nuclear Physics , 3 volumes, Pergamon Press, 1980, 1981
• with JR Lucas Space, Time and Causality , 1985
• with JR Lucas Spacetime and Electromagnetism , Oxford University Press 1990
• with E. Gadioli Pre-Equilibrium Nuclear Reactions , Oxford University Press 1991 OUP.
• with Anton Nikolaev Antonov, Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov Nucleon Momentum and Density Distributions in Nuclei , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1988
• with AN Antonov, I. Zh. Petkov Nucleon Correlations in Nuclei , Springer-Verlag 1993
• with E. Gadioli, E. Gadioli-Erba Introductory Nuclear Physics , Oxford University Press 1996
• with SA Sofianos Nuclear Physics , Pretoria, University of South Africa, 1997

Other books:

• Nuclear Physics in Peace and War , London, Burns & Oates 1961.
• Our Nuclear Future , Belfast: Christian Journals Ltd. 1983
• Christianity and Science , Studies in Christianity & Science, Oxford University Press 1990
• with Thomas A. Brody, Luid de la Peña The Philosophy behind Physics , 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 1994
• Energy and Environment , Bowerdean 1997
• Nuclear Power, Energy and the Environment , London, Imperial College Press, 1999
• Science, Technology, and Society , Tokyo, Kinseido 1999
• Christianity and Science , Johannesburg, St. Augustine College 2002
• The Roots of Science and Its Fruits , London: The Saint Austin Press, 2003
• Science and Belief in the Nuclear Age , Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University 2005
• Theology and Modern Physics , Ashgate Publishing, London 2005
• Energy, the Environment, and Climate Change , Imperial College Press., 2010

Web links

• Lives Remembered: Dr Peter E Hodgson and Fr James Alfred McCormick. In: The Catholic Herald. March 6, 2009, archived from the original on May 26, 2010 .