John Jagger

John Jagger has a BS in physics (1949) from Yale College and a PhD in biophysics (1954) from Yale University. The seashore house in New Haven CT in which he was born in 1924 continued to be his home for the next 30 years. He wrote "Cove Days: The Seaside Childhood of a Scientist" (Photon Publications, 2002). He spent two postdoctoral years at the Radium Institute in Paris, then worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for nine years. In 1965, he moved to the University of Texas at Dallas, and retired in 1989 as Professor of General Studies and Biology. He took early retirement in order to write on problems of science and society. He wrote "The Nuclear Lion: What Every Citizen Should Know about Nuclear Power and Nuclear War" (Plenum, 1991), and "Science and the Religious Right: What Americans Should Know about Both" (iUniverse, 2010). He writes poetry and enjoys aquatic sports and flying.