John C. H. Spence
John Charles Howorth Spence ForMemRS HonFRMS is Richard Snell Professor of Physics at Arizona State University and Director of Science at the National Science Foundation BioXFEL Science and Technology Center.Education
Spence was educated at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded a PhD in 1973 for work on double plasmon studies of metals.Spence was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2015. His nomination reads:
In 2017 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society for his contributions to microscopy. Spence is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and the author of the book "Lightspeed" on the history of attempts to measure the speed of light leading to Einstein's theories.
