John David Jackson was born on January 19, 1925, and died on May 20, 2016.

He was a Canadian–American physics.

He was the professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

John was a theoretical physicist, John was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely used graduate text on classical electromagnetism.

John David Jackson passed away 91 yrs old.