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'''Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison''' (born 1936) is a British physicist and retired academic who was Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2003.

== Career == Born in 1936,<ref name="wd2005">''Writers Directory'' (St. James Press, 2005).</ref> Aitchison read mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1958; he then completed a PhD in theoretical physics there in 1961.<ref>[https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i400-ian-aitchison/bio/ "Ian Aitchison"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203123957/https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i400-ian-aitchison/bio/ |date=3 December 2019 }}, ''CRC Press'' (Taylor & Francis Group). Retrieved 3 December 2019.</ref><ref>''The Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988'' (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 11.</ref>

Between 1961 and 1963, Aitchison was a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, United States; 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.<ref name="wd2005" /><ref>[http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/universitycalendar/EMERITUS.pdf "Professors Emeritus"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425162146/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/gazette/documents/universitycalendar/EMERITUS.pdf |date=25 April 2013 }}, ''Oxford University Calendar''. Retrieved 3 December 2019.</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* ''Relativistic Quantum Mechanics'' (Macmillan, 1972). * (Co-editor with Jack E. Paton) ''Rudolf Peierls and Theoretical Physics: Proceedings of the symposium held in Oxford on July 11th & 12th, 1974, to mark the occasion of the retirement of Professor Sir Rudolph E. Peierls, F.R.S., C.B.E.'' (Pergamon Press, 1977). {{isbn|0-08-020606-9}} hbk. * (Co-authored with A. J. G. Hey) ''Gauge Theories in Particle Physics'' (1st ed. Hilger and University of Sussex Press, 1982; 2nd ed. 1989; 3rd ed. Taylor and Francis, 2002; [https://books.google.com/books?id=jIoTEAAAQBAJ 4th ed., vols. 1 & 2] CRC Press, 2012; 5th ed., vols. 1 & 2 CRC Press, 2024). * ''An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories'' (Cambridge University Press, 1982; reprinted with corrections, 1984; digitally printed with additional corrections, 2007). * (Co-editor with C. H. Llewellyn Smith and J. E. Paton) ''Plots, Quarks and Strange Particles: Proceedings of the Dalitz Conference 1990'' (World Scientific, 1991). * ''Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: An Elementary Introduction'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007). {{isbn|9781139467056}}

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