John Clive Ward

John Clive Ward (1924-2000), was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the Ward-Takahashi identity, originally known as "Ward's identity" (or "Ward Identities").He also worked on British atomic weapons and claimed to be the "father of the British hydrogen bomb".

He is one of the creators of the Standard Model. In addition he made important contributions to quantum mechanics and solid state physics. In a 1949 paper, published in Nature (with Maurice Pryce), he was the first to show that local theories and quantum mechanics were incompatible.

Ward's contributions to modern physics are towering so much so that Sakharov classified him as one of the "titans" of quantum electrodynamics. In this regard, it has been said that physicists have made use of his principles and developments "often without knowing it, and generally without quoting him"."

After WWII, Ward worked in several places in the United States and eventually he moved to Sydney, Australia, via New Zealand. In 1964 he created the physics program of Macquarie University and, in the late 1970s, participated in the Macquarie science reform movement.

External links

* [http://www.opticsjournal.com/JCWard.pdf Unfinished autobiography] (online).

* [http://www.opticsjournal.com/ward.htm] Biographical note (includes picture).

* [http://ptonline.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTOAD000053000010000099000001&idtype=cvips] AIP biography (R. H. Dalitz and F. J. Duarte, Physics Today 53 (10), 99-100 (2000)). (See Richard Dalitz)