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J. G. Fox
John Gaston "Jack" Fox (March 5, 1916 – July 24, 1980) was an American nuclear physicist. He earned his PhD from Princeton in 1941 and was soon recruited to work on the Manhattan Project. He later moved to Pittsburgh where he spent the rest of his career as a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for his work in the 1960s, applying the results of the extinction theorem to the then-current body of experimental evidence relating to both special relativity and emission theory. ==Brief biography==
Jack Fox, as he was always known, was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan.〔His birthname was James Gaston Fox, James being the English form of "Jacques", the name of his Swiss-born jeweller father. His parents called him Jacques, his friends called him Jack, and as a young man, Jack legally changed his name from James Gaston to John Gaston, to avoid inevitably being called "Jim".〕 He moved with his mother to Victoria at age 13, and left high school two years early to attend Victoria College. He went on to the University of Saskatchewan for his MS and Princeton for his PhD, both in physics. He worked briefly in industry before going to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos for the duration of World War II. In 1947, he married Constance Sullivan of Victoria; they moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he had joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon). They both became U.S. citizens in 1955, and raised three children in the suburb of Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Fox died in Pittsburgh in 1980.
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