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Morgan, John Davis was born on April 10, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of John Davis Junior and Leta (Bretzinger) Morgan.
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John Davis Morgan, American Physicist. Achievements include research on high-precision calculations of helium atom energy levels, elucidation of convergence rates of Rayleigh-Ritz variational calculations, performance of large-order Rayleigh-Schroedinger perturbation theory, application of mathematical physics to problems in atomic and molecular structure, ancient astronomy and chronology.
Education
Bachelor of Science, George Washington University, 1974; Master of Science, Oxford (England) University, 1978; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
Career
Lecturer, postdoctoral fellow department physics, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1978-1981;
assistant professor department physics and astronomy, U. Delaware, Newark, 1981-1986;
associate professor, U. Delaware, Newark, since 1986. Visiting scholar department chemistry Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988-1990, visiting associate professor department physics, 1990, associate department of classics, 1993;visiting scientist Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge,1989-1990, 92, Institute for Nuclear Theory, U. Washington, 1993. Member School History Studies Institute for Advanced Study, 1994.
Visiting scientist Theory Center, Cornell Univercity, 1995.
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Member American Physical Society (counsellor topical group on few-body systems 1989-1992), American Philological Association.
