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\title{Ian at Balliol}

\author{JONATHON HODBY}

\address{Balliol College \\
Oxford University \\ Oxford, OX1 3BJ, United Kingdom%\\
%E-mail: jonathon.hodby@balliol.ox.ac.uk
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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.

Ian's novel and idiosyncratic lines of questioning in entrance 
interviews will long be remembered by victim and fellow-interviewer 
alike. Ian's teaching room in College was unique in my experience.
The whiteboard filling one wall, the table and desk, the enormous sofa 
and the chairs could fill any Tutor's room.
There were however no books, perhaps one or two, perhaps a James Bond
novel, but not more. All that was needed was in Ian�s head. Atom and
nuclear and particle data were there. All concepts were to hand. All
needful theory was derived at the board in real time from first
principles and applied to the issue being thrashed out. What an
education! What an experience for his students!

With Ian's arrival in Oxford, no seminar speaker could expect to be
re\-ceived in respectful silence. An arm would go up from a row near the
front. A probing line of questions would be guaranteed to awaken the
audience and to enliven and deepen the discussion.

Ian had a childishly joyful personality open to all from young to old.
He was just as delighted when schoolchildren ventured to use him to
try out their fledgling Russian as when a new and fundamental insight
was developed for a long-standing scientific problem. In build an
archetypal Russian bear, Ian had a great love of the outdoors finding
relaxation in walking, running, skiing and climbing.

We mourn the untimely death of a man at the peak of his powers. We
offer our sympathy to the family who have lost their son, their
son-in-law, their husband and their father. We are thankful for the
privilege of having had Ian in our midst.
 
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