ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Jackson Thompson
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
University
of North Carolina
Chapel
Hill, NC 27599-3255, USA
Voice:
919-962-7215 / 919-942-8443
Fax:
919-942-8443
E-mail:
wmjthompson@msn.com
Education
D.Sc. 1982, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ph.D. 1967, Florida State University
M.Sc. 1962, University of Auckland
B.Sc.
1961, University of Auckland
Professional
Experience
1998-
Column editor, Computing in Science and Engineering
1997-
Book review consultant, Physics
Today
1996-
Contributing editor, book review consultant, American
Scientist
1992-98 Associate
editor, Computers
in Physics
1992-96 Contributing
editor, Computers in Physics
1985-87 Research
program manager, U.S. Department of Energy
1981
Visiting scientist, University of Tsukuba, Japan (January)
1978-
Professor of physics, University of North Carolina
1977
Visiting scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (June, July)
1976
Visiting professor, University of Auckland (August - October)
1975
Visiting scientist, University of Munich (August)
1974
Visiting scientist, University of Wisconsin (August)
1974-78
Associate professor of physics, University of North Carolina
1973-74
Visiting associate professor, Kansas State University
1969-74 Assistant
professor of physics, University of North Carolina
1969,70
Visiting
scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Heidelberg; Nuclear Research Center, Juelich, Germany;
Nuclear Accelerator Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
1968
Visiting assistant professor, University of Washington (summer)
1967-69 Acting
assistant professor, Florida State University
Professional
Interests
Computational physics and
mathematics, nuclear and quantum physics, science teaching
Publications
163 publications in nuclear and quantum physics (90), physics
teaching (21), statistics (8), computing and applied mathematics (30), science
publishing (14). These include:
workshop proceedings (co-editor)
undergraduate text (sole author)
Computing for Scientists and Engineers (Wiley, 1992); text (sole author)
Angular Momentum (Wiley, 1994);
graduate text (sole author)
Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions: C version
(Wiley, 1997);
Atlas for
Computing Mathematical Functions: Fortran version (Wiley, 1997);
compendium (sole author)