John Joseph Quinn (September 25, 1933 – October 8, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist as well as an academic administrator; he was a former Chancellor and a member of the faculty at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US.
He was considered to be an expert in the areas of solid-state physics and many-body theory including two dimensional Composite fermions, low-dimensional systems, quantum Hall effect and nanoscience.
His doctoral research at Maryland was in “Self-Energy Approach to Correlations in a Degenerate Electron Gas” under the supervision of Professor R.A. Ferrell.
He was also instrumental in starting the International Conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems EP2DS a biannual professional gathering of researchers and scientists.
Quinn was Chairman of the influential Solid State Sciences Committee and co-authored the book “Artificially Structured Materials” (National Academy Press, 1985).
The advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook “Solid State Physics: Principles and Modern Applications” (Springer Verlag, 2009) is co-authored by John Quinn and K.S.