Dr John Meadows Jackson FRSE FIMA FRAS (1907–1998) was a British mathematician.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School having won a scholarship on the basis of his intellect.
He won a further scholarship, enabling him to undertake postgraduate studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, under Sir Nevill Mott where he obtained a PhD in Physics in 1933.
The department later relocated to Fettes College in Edinburgh where he worked on the design of mine-sweeping equipment.
[1] In January 1946 he began lecturing in Mathematics at University College, Dundee, initially living with his family in Wormit in Fife on the opposite side of the Tay estuary.