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    • John W. Campbell

    American science fiction writer and editor (1910–1971)

    For the American financier, see John W. Campbell (financier). For other people, see John Campbell (disambiguation).

    John W. Campbell

    Campbell in 1956

    BornJohn Wood Campbell Jr.
    (1910-06-08)June 8, 1910
    Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
    DiedJuly 11, 1971(1971-07-11) (aged 61)
    Mountainside, New Jersey, U.S.
    Pen nameDon A. Stuart
    OccupationMagazine editor, writer
    NationalityAmerican
    Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (no degree)
    Duke University (BS, physics, 1934)
    Period1930–1971
    GenreScience fiction

    John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote super-science space opera under his own name and stories under his primary pseudonym, Don A. Stuart. Campbell also used the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann. His novella Who Goes There? was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011).

    Campbell began writing science fiction at age 18 while attending MIT. He published six short stories, one novel, and eight letters in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories from 1930 to 1931. This work established Campbell's reputation as a writer of space adventure. When in 1934 he began to write stories with a different tone, he wrote as Don A. Stuart. From 1930 until 1937, Campbell was prolific and successful under both names; he stopped writing fiction shortly after he became editor of Astounding in 1937. In his capacity as an editor, Campbell published some of the very earliest work, and helped shape the careers of virtually every important science-fiction author to debut between 1938 and 1946, including Isa

    Author’s Biography

    Richard McLauchlan was John Campbell’s collaborator on the book and made an exceptional contribution. Richard was educated at Haldane’s alma mater, The Edinburgh Academy, and at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge. His doctoral work on the poet R.S. Thomas was published as “Saturday’s Silence” in 2016 by the Haldane-inspired University of Wales Press. He co-founded the Scottish educational charity Light Up Learning and is now a freelance researcher and writer. Richard worked tirelessly alongside Campbell for the last five years of his journey in the footsteps of Haldane to bring Haldane vividly to life.

    Following the publication of ‘Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman…’ Richard moved on to author ‘Serious Minds: The Extraordinary Haldanes of Cloan’. Published in 2022, also by Hurst, this book delves deeply into the wider Haldane of Cloan family from the age of Lord Haldane’s mother and his father, who acquired the small estate of Cloan in Perthshire in 1852, down to the present generation. Not least it provides additional context to elucidate the thinking and work of Lord Haldane. The Haldane family’s achievements, weaving nature and nurture into a fabulous idiosyncratic tweed, are breathtakingly wide-ranging and fascinating. Arguably Scotland’s foremost intellectual family, their achievements embrace philosophy, the law, public service, literature, academia and the natural and social sciences at the highest level.

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    Born
    27 May 1862
    Lisburn, Co Antrim, Ireland
    Died
    1 October 1924
    Oxford, England
    Summary
    Campbell is remembered for the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff theorem which gives a formula for multiplication of exponentials in Lie algebras.

    Biography

    John Campbell's father was also named John Campbell. He was a medical doctor who had a practice in Lisburn. John junior, the subject of this biography, was educated at home when he was young. He then entered the Methodist College in Belfast where he completed his school education before entering Queen's College, Belfast.

    The Queen's University in Belfast had been established in 1845 and Campbell felt great loyalty towards this institution. As Elliott writes in [2]:-
    He always remained a very loyal Ulsterman, in every sense, and expressed warm gratitude to those under whom he studied in his first university.
    Campbell graduated from the Queen's University in 1884 and won a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in England. He entered Hertford College, at that time a new College which had been founded in Oxford in 1874. He graduated in 1885 winning a Junior Mathematical University Scholarship in that year. He became a fellow of Hertford College in 1887, being awarded a Senior Scholarship in 1888, and was then appointed as a tutor at the College. He later was appointed as a lecturer at University College.

    As to his success as a lecturer in Oxford Elliott, in [2], gives the following details:-
    Of his devotion to duty in Oxford it is impossible to speak too highly, and the general affection felt for him can hardly be exaggerated. His success with pupils was marked, all the more marked because all saw that he was at home, mathematically, in regions above them, and wondered that he could come down to their modest level. He possessed capacity for administration also, serving his College well as Vice-Principal, with Principal's authority, and as Bursar, at times of special need.
    He was