Speaker profile
Dr John Hardwick
MA(Cantab) PhD CPhys MInstP
Available for booking
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
20 miles travel distance
Amateur Astronomer
Summary
Retired physicist with a background in natural sciences.
Full biography
Graduated 1972 Cambridge (Caius) in Natural Sciences, postgrad at Liverpool in High Energy Physics at the 5GeV synchrotron Nina at Daresbury Lab. Subsequently Research Associate at Rutherford Lab and NIKHEF Amsterdam working on experiments WA3 and NA11 at the west and north areas of the SPS at CERN. Returned to UK in 1983 to work at Culham Lab on the lightning protection of aircraft.
Lectures
Atmospheric Optics
Occasional lecture incorporating work done as an interest. https://physicsworld.com/a/the-subtlety-of-rainbows/ Whymper Apparition https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1256/ https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-44-27-5637 Tyndall's Sunrise on the Pines https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-59-25-7560
