James Maurice Daniels (August 26, 1924 – June 12, 2016) was a Canadian physicist, inventor, author, and former university professor. He was a physics professor at the University of British Columbia from 1953 to 1960, then a year as a visiting professor at Instituto de Fisica J.A. Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina, before becoming a professor of Physics at the University of Toronto. He also served 5 years as Chairman of the department. He retired as Professor Emeritus in the late 1980s to live near Princeton, where he had been a visiting senior researcher in 1984–85.
Awards and honors
Daniels is the inventor in three US patents: Instrument to measure the polarization of a hyperpolarized substance Device to measure the polarization of a hyperpolarized resonant substance Means and apparatus for analysing and filtering polarized light and synthesizing a scene in filtered light
He is the author of the book Oriented Nuclei."Oriented Nuclei" (Academic Press, 1965).
He authored many scientific articles in areas such as nuclear orientation, and applications of Mossbauer spectroscopy to magnetic materials and minerals.
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