Dodd, Professor Emeritus John Newton Biography 1991

DODD, Professor Emeritus John Newton (Jack)
Retired Beverley Professor of Physics, University of Otago
Born Hastings, 19 April 1922, son of John Henry Dodd and Eva Elsie (née Weeks); married Jean Patricia Oldfield, daughter of George and Ida Oldfield, 1950; three sons one daughter.
Education: North East Valley Primary School, Dunedin; Otago Boys High School; Otago University, Bachelor of Science 1942, Master of Science (Physics) 1945 Master of Science (Maths) 1946; 1851 Exhibition Scholarship 1947; Birmingham University, PhD 1952; FIP; Chartered Physicist; FIPNZ; FRSNZ 1964; RSNZ Hector Medal;.
Lecturer in Physics, Otago University 1952, Senior Lecturer 1957; Nuffield Res Fellowship to Clarendon Lab, Oxford, 1959; Reader in Physics, Otago University 1960, Professor of Physics 1965; Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute of Lab Astrophysics, University of Colorado, 1967; Beverley Professor of Physics, Otago University, 1968-1988 (retired); Professor Emeritus, 1988; President, RSNZ, 1989.  President, Otago University Students Association, 1946; Committee Member and President: Globe Theatre, Dunedin, Dunedin Concert Society; Board of Governors, Otago Boys High School, 6 years.
Publications: Einstein (co-author), 1981; Atoms and Light-Interactions, Plenum, 1991.
Recreations: music, theatre, gardening, reading.
Address: 13 Malvern Street, Dunedin.