Wade Allison was born on 1941 and is a British physicist who is Emeritus professor of Physics and Fellow of Keble College at Oxford University.
10 Facts About Wade Allison
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Wade Allison was educated at Rugby School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge as an Open Exhibitioner in Natural Science.
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Wade Allison gained a First Class in Part I of the Tripos, before taking Part II in Physics and Part III in Mathematics in 1963.
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Wade Allison was elected to a Research Lecturership at Christ Church, Oxford in 1967 and a Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
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Wade Allison spent two years at the Argonne National Laboratory before returning to Oxford in 1970.
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Wade Allison was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota in 1995.
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Wade Allison retired officially in 2008, since when he has continued to teach, lecture and study.
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Wade Allison was elected to an emeritus fellowship at Keble College in 2010.
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Wade Allison made special studies on the fields of relativistic charged particles in matter including Cherenkov Radiation, Transition radiation and other mechanisms of energy loss, dEdx.
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Wade Allison's third book Nuclear is for Life is a broad study that contrasts the cultural rejection of nuclear energy with the evidence, at all but the highest levels, for the harmless, and even beneficial, interaction of radiation with life.