John C. H. Spence
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 Spence in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society | |
| Born | John Charles Howorth Spence 21 April 1946 Canberra, Australia |
| Died | 28 June 2021 (aged 75) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (PhD) |
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| Thesis | Double plasmon studies in several metals (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Spargo[4] |
| Other academic advisors | Peter Hirsch David Cockayne Michael Whelan John M. Cowley[5] |
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John Charles Howorth Spence
HonFRMS (21 April 1946 – 28 June 2021) was Richard Snell Professor of Physics at Arizona State University and Director of Science at the National Science Foundation BioXFEL Science and Technology Center.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Education
Spence was educated at the
Sir Peter Hirsch, David Cockayne and Michael Whelan, and then at Arizona State University under John M. Cowley, working alongside Sumio Iijima, Ondrej Krivanek and David J. Smith. Later, he established his own group at Arizona State University
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Awards and honours
Spence was elected a
nanocrystals, for directly and accurately imaging the chemical bonds between atoms, and published the first observation of dislocation kinks, at atomic resolution. He has developed new microscopies and spectroscopies
which have given scientists new eyes to understand atomic processes in solids.
In 2017 he was made an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (HonFRMS) for his contributions to microscopy.[15] Spence was a (corresponding) Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and the author of the book "Lightspeed" (OUP 2019) on the history of attempts to measure the speed of light leading to Einstein's theories. For 2021 he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize.[16] He died in 2021.[17]
Bibliography
Monograph and handbook
- Spence, John C. H.; Zuo, J. M. (1992). Electron microdiffraction. New York: Plenum Press. OCLC 26634670.
- Science of microscopy. P. W. Hawkes, John C. H. Spence. New York: Springer. 2007. )
- Spence, John C. H. (2013). High-resolution electron microscopy (4th ed.). Oxford. )
- Zuo, Jian Min; Spence, John C. H. (2017). Advanced transmission electron microscopy : imaging and diffraction in nanoscience. New York, NY. )
- Springer handbook of microscopy. P. W. Hawkes, John C. H. Spence. Cham, Switzerland. 2019. OCLC 1126315044.)
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Nonfiction
- Spence, John C. H. (2020). Lightspeed : the ghostly aether and the race to measure the speed of light. Oxford, United Kingdom. OCLC 1126585794.)
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Professor John Spence ForMemRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-19-966863-2.
- ^ a b "Regent's Professor J.C.H. Spence". Arizona State University. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012.
- PMC 8420760.
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- ^ John C. H. Spence publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "John Spence, Arizona State University, Department of Physics". bioxfel.org. Archived from the original on 6 June 2015.
- PMID 21293373.
- S2CID 45473741.
- PMID 21293374.
- .
- S2CID 14224319.
- OCLC 224889847.
- S2CID 250834812.
- ^ "Current RMS Honorary Fellows". www.rms.org.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^ Gregori Aminoff Prize 2021
- ^ "In memoriam: Regents Professor John Spence". 30 June 2021.
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