Professor
John Newton
FAA
In 1950-1052, Professor John Newton measured the first (d, p8) angular correlation, the polarisation of a 6 MeV gamma ray (even now few measurements have been done at such high energies) and proposed one of the most powerful general methods for studying nuclear states by the angular correlation method. In 1954 he gave explanations for the favoured and unfavoured transitions observed in the alpha decay of odd nuclei and also for the inhibition of decay ratio by spontaneous fission for odd and doubly-odd nuceli. He made the first Coulomb excitation measurements on radioactive actinide nuclei (1956) and first demonstrated the phenomena of multiple and projectile Coulomb excitation (1958). Since 1966 he has bee a pioneer in the study of high spin states using heavy-ion reactions.
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