IAN AT BALLIOL

Following his Doctorate in Moscow and Fellowships at the Universities of British Columbia and Princeton, Ian came to Oxford in 1994 as University Lecturer in Theoretical Physics and as Fellow of Balliol.

Always amused by our peculiar ways, Ian was instantly at home in Balliol with its large school of Physics and of Physics and Philosophy. Students over the last nine years have left with vivid memories of rapid-fire exchanges on a limitless range of subjects, of detailed and painstaking one-to-one teaching, of widely ranging tutorials and classes, and of Ian's innate feeling for the mathematical beauty of his subject. The wiser among them will have begun to appreciate the privilege of contact with a man of profound and towering intellect…