Eric Jakeman

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Eric Jakeman

FRS
Born1939 (age 8384) [1]
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Birmingham [2]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematical physics
Institutions

Eric Jakeman FRS (born 1939) is a British mathematical physicist specialising in the statistics and quantum statistics of waves. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham.

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Education

Jakeman was educated at The Brunts School in Mansfield, England. [1] He received a degree in mathematical physics from Birmingham University in 1960, and a PhD in superconductivity theory in 1963. [2]

Career

He was the head of the scattering and quantum optics section at the Defence Research Agency, a visiting professor at Imperial College London, an honorary secretary of the Institute of Physics from 1994 until 2003, and finally a Professor of Applied Statistical Optics at the University of Nottingham from 1996. He was a member of the Council of the European Physical Society from 1985 until 2003. [1] [4] [2]

Awards and honours

In 1977, Jakeman received the Maxwell Medal of the Institute of Physics for his work on statistical optics. [4] [3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990. [5] His certificate of election reads:

Dr Jakeman is an internationally recognised expert in the statistics and quantum statistics of wave fields, particularly those arising in laser scattering. His theoretical work on photon statistics and speckle has made a unique contribution to the development of the technique of photon correlation spectroscopy which is now used to investigate structure and motion in a wide range of systems of importance in engineering, medicine, physics, chemistry and biology. He has also significantly advanced the subject of non-Gaussian scattering of waves by random media and has developed new noise models which are being widely applied in optical, microwave and acoustic scattering problems. Dr Jakeman has also made important contributions to the field of heat and mass transfer, particularly on the subjects of morphological stability and oscillatory convection in crystal growth, and was jointly responsible for the notion of doubly-diffusive convection driven by the Soret Effect. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Jakeman, E (2006). Modeling fluctuations in scattered waves. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN   0-7503-1005-7.
  3. 1 2 Physics, Institute of. "Maxwell medal recipients". Institute of Physics - For physics • For physicists • For all. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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  5. "Eric Jakeman". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License."
  6. "EC/1990/17: Jakeman, Eric". The Royal Society . Retrieved 6 July 2017.