Dr. John Campbell
Position
Research Associate
Qualifications
Ph.D. (Lond.)
B.Sc.(Hons), M.N.Z.I.P.
Room
204, Physics and Astronomy
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364-2565
Internal Phone: 6565
Email: john.campbell@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Research Interests
- Rutherford biographer
- Defect modes in doped crystals
- Spectroscopy of uranium ions in alkaline earth halides
- Growth of single crystals; fluorite, ruby, LaF3 , quartz
- Communicating science to the public
- Firewalking
- Vacuum technology
- Colour in nature
- Marine archaeology
Honours and Awards.
2009 Staff Club of the University of Canterbury – Life Membership.
2009 Nelson Historical Society – Honorary Member.
2005 NZ Science and Technology Promotion Award – to produce a DVD for school-teachers.
2004 Staff Club of the University of Canterbury – President.
2000 Foundation for Research Science and Technology – Science Communicator Award.
1997 NZ Institute of Physics – Journalist Award.
1996 Foundation for Research Science and Technology – Science Communicator Award.
1995 Royal Society of New Zealand – Bronze Medal.
1994 NZ Association of Scientists – Science Communicator Merit Award.
1992 NZ Association of Scientists – Science Communicator Merit Award.
1991 Nelson's 150th Birthday Committee – Certificate of Appreciation.
1990 1990 Commemorative Medal – for services to Science Education.
1989 FRG/NZ Science Co-operation Travel Award.
1987 NZ Institute of Physics – Outstanding Service to Physics Education Award.
1985 NZ Institute of Physics – Journalist Award.
Initiatives
2006 The Rutherford Documentary – (3 hours)
2005 DVD for school-teachers of how to perform lecture demonstrations.
2001 Pickering/Rutherford/Havelock Memorial Plaza
2001 www.rutherford.org.nz
2000 Memorial to Percy, Charles and Herbert Rutherford, Havelock Cemetery.
1999 Author of Rutherford - Scientist Supreme, AAS Publications, New Zealand
1998 Chairman, Erskine Fund Review Committee of the Faculties of Science, Engineering and Commerce.
1996 Author of Rutherford's Ancestors.
1994 Annual Bickerton Lecture (1997 attendance 900 at the Theatre Royal.)
1994 Display in the Rutherford Cafe, Rutherford Hotel, Nelson.
1993 Ask-A-Scientist Programme - Scientists in support of Schoolteachers.
1992 Design for the Rutherford banknote.
1990 Rutherford Exhibition, Whipple Museum, Cambridge University.
1989 4 Posters on Ernest Rutherford for British schools.
1989 Firewalking as a fun way to communicate science.
1988 The Rutherford Birthplace Project, Nelson.
1985 Co-author of a report recommending that science centres be set up in New Zealand.
1978 Design for The Rutherford Den, Christchurch Arts Centre.
1974 Tour of West Coast Schools, Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Maths and Physics).
Books, and contributions to.
Rutherford - Scientist Supreme, AAS Publications, 1999.
Farr, CC, in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 4 1998.
Rutherford's Ancestors, AAS Publications, 1996.
Ernest Rutherford, in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 3 1996.
Rutherford the Inventor, in Kiwi Ingenuity, AIT Press, 1995.