(Jim) Piper AM (1 January 1947 – 20 July 2023) was a New Zealand/Australian physicist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Physics at Macquarie University.
[3] Piper studied physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and received a B.Sc.
[4] His post-doctoral research was on metal-vapour lasers, with Colin Webb at Oxford.
Following his arrival to Macquarie University in the late 1970s, from Oxford, Piper established one of the first laser research centres in Australia.
In this area of research he is co-author, with Frank Duarte, of a number of papers on tunable laser oscillator physics.