John S. Winfield
VERSIONE
ITALIANA
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud
Via S. Sofia, 44
I - 95123 Catania
Sicily, near Italy
Brief resume
I am an experimental nuclear physicist
(whenever possible), always
open to job offers in physics and computing (C++ and Unix
included).
The beginnings
I started life in the self-proclaimed nuclear-free city of
Leicester (G.B.)
(little did they know), just two months after
Sputnik 1
was launched, and less than one month that Laika the dog was sent into orbit in
Sputnik 2.
Thus I might (almost) claim that my birth heralded the space age.
He gets educated
Anyway, you can believe that I went to
Winstanley High School,
in Braunstone, Leicester and
Bosworth College, in Desford, Leics.,
to learn my ABC. Then I progressed to
Imperial College, London University to study Physics
and become both a B.Sc. and an A.R.C.S. (Associate of the Royal College of Science).
After those great honours, I did my thesis research, which was about a heavy-ion transfer
reaction, (9Be,10B), and obtained my D.Phil. in 1983
at Oxford University, England.
If you really want to know, I was at New College
(founded in 1379, names sometimes being misleading).
The Graft
I had first a post-doctoral position at the
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory followed by
a staff appointment as a Liaison Physicist, helping other experimenters do their stuff. Since
1995, I have had short-term positions at three different laboratories in France:
the Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen,
and the Grand
Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (also in Caen), and at the
Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay.
During this time I was involved mostly with nuclei far from
beta stability and often with radioactive nuclear beams.
Subsequently,
I have had an EPSRC Visiting Fellowship at the University
of Surrey in Guildford, (back in old Albion). I worked in the
Nuclear Physics Group
analysing data from a 11Be radioactive beam
experiment, which was performed while
I was with IPN, Orsay.
Ffinally, I have joined the MAGNEX
collaboration, building a large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer for use
with the future EXCYT radioactive
beam facility at the INFN-LNS laboratory in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Further gory details
See my
CV (html),
or marvel at a list of some of my publications.
Now with hyperlinks!
Cpt. Melbeck's links
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