John Clive Ward
| John Clive Ward | |
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| Born |
1 August 1924 London, England |
| Died | 6 May 2000 (aged 75) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Australian, British |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions |
Institute for Advanced Study Bell Laboratories University of Adelaide University of Maryland University of Miami Carnegie Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Victoria University of Wellington Macquarie University |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Some Properties of Elementary Particles (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Pryce |
| Known for |
Electroweak theory Quantum electrodynamics Quantum field theory Renormalization theory Ward–Takahashi identity Hydrogen bomb |
| Notable awards |
Guthrie Medal (1981) Dirac Medal (1981) Heineman Prize (1982) Hughes Medal (1983) |
John Clive Ward, FRS (1 August 1924 – 6 May 2000) was a British-Australian physicist. He introduced the Ward–Takahashi identity, also known as "Ward Identity" (or "Ward's Identities"). Andrei Sakharov said Ward was one of the titans of quantum electrodynamics. He made significant contributions to quantum solid-state physics, statistical mechanics and the Ising model.
Ward was one of the authors of the Standard Model of gauge particle interactions: his contributions were published in a series of papers he co-authored with Abdus Salam. He is also credited with being an early advocate of the use of Feynman diagrams. It has been said that physicists have made use of his principles and developments "often without knowing it, and generally without quoting him."
In 1955, Ward was recruited to work at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. There, he independently derived a version of the Teller-Ulam design, for which he has been called the "father of the British H-bomb".
John Clive Ward was born in East Ham, London, on 1 August 1924. He was the son of Joseph William Ward, a civil servant who worked in Inland Revenue, and his wife Winifred née Palmer, a schoolteacher. He had a sister, Mary Patricia. He attended Chalkwell Elementary School and Westcliff High School for Boys. In 1938 he sat for and won a ₤100 scholarship to Bishop Stortford College. He took the Higher School Certificate Examination in 1942, receiving distinctions in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Latin, and was offered a postmastership (scholarship) to Merton College, Oxford.
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