Ian Aitchison

Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison is a physicist and retired academic who was Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2003.

Career

Born in 1936, Aitchison read mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1958; he then completed a PhD in theoretical physics there in 1961.
Between 1961 and 1963, Aitchison was a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York; after a year at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France, he worked as a research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1966. In 1966, he was elected a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and appointed a university lecturer in theoretical physics; he was awarded the title of Professor of Physics in 1996 and retired in 2003. He remains an emeritus professor at the University of Oxford.