John Michael ZIMAN

Background

ZIMAN, John was born on May 16, 1925. Son of the late Solomon Netheim Ziman and of Nellie Francis (nee Gaster) Ziman.

Education

Hamilton High School, New Zealand, Victoria College, Wellington, Balliol College, Oxford.

Career

Lecturer in Mathematics, Oxford University 1951-1953, Pressed Steel Limited. Research Fellow 1953-1954. Lecturer in Physics, Cambridge University 1954-1964, Fellow of King"s College 1957-1964.

Professor, of Theoretical Physics, University of Bristol 1964-1969, Melville Wills Professor 1969-1976, Henry Overton Wills Professor, and Director H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory 1976-1981, Professor Emeritus since 1989.

Visiting Professor, in Departments of Social and Economics Studies and Humanities, Imperial College, of Science and Technology since 1982. Chairman Science Policy Support Group since 1986.

Jt. Chairman Council for Science and Society.

Rutherford Memorial Lecturer in India and Pakistan 1968. Airey Neave Memorial.

Served (with Jasper Rose) 1964, Principles of the Theory of Solids 1965, Public Knowledge 1968, Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory 1969, The Force of Knowledge 1976, Reliable Knowledge 1979, Models of"Disease

Connections

Married Rosemary Milnes Dixon in 1951.

Father:

the late Solomon Netheim Ziman

Mother:

of Nellie Francis (nee Gaster) Ziman

Spouse:

Rosemary Milnes Dixon