Eric Jakeman was born on 1939 and is a British mathematical physicist specialising in the statistics and quantum statistics of waves.
10 Facts About Eric Jakeman
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Eric Jakeman is an emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham.
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Eric Jakeman received a degree in mathematical physics from Birmingham University in 1960, and a PhD in superconductivity theory in 1963.
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Eric Jakeman 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.
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Eric Jakeman was a member of the Council of the European Physical Society from 1985 until 2003.
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In 1977, Eric Jakeman received the Maxwell Medal of the Institute of Physics for his work on statistical optics.
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Eric Jakeman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990.
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Dr Eric Jakeman is an internationally recognised expert in the statistics and quantum statistics of wave fields, particularly those arising in laser scattering.
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Eric Jakeman has 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.
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Eric Jakeman has made 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.