# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-david-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:02.219Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-david-jackson"
name: "John David Jackson"
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description: "John David Jackson was a Canadian–American theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."
tagline: "American theoretical physicist and textbook author (1925–2016)"
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birthDate: "1925-01-19"
deathDate: "2016-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump