James Maurice Daniels

James Maurice Daniels (born 1924) is a Canadian Oxford-educated physicist, inventor, author, and former university professor. He was a physics professor at the University of British Columbia, then a university researcher in Brazil, before becoming a professor at the University of Toronto where he retired in the late 1980s.

He won a Guggenheim Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978.

He is the inventor in three US patents: Instrument to measure the polarization of a hyperpolarized substance Device to measure the polarization of a hyperpolarized resonant substance Means and apparatus for analysing and filtering polarized light and synthesizing a scene in filtered light

He is the author of the book "Oriented Nuclei" (Academic Press, 1965).

He authored many scientific articles in areas such as nuclear orientation, and applications of Mossbauer spectroscopy to magnetic materials and minerals. For example: 1, 2, 3, 4.

He was the PhD supervisor of several physicists who became university professors in Canada, including: Gilles Lamarche (UBC-phD, University of Ottawa), Marcel Leblanc (UBC-PhD, University of Ottawa), Denis Rancourt (Toronto-PhD, University of Ottawa), and Stephen Julian (Toronto-PhD, University of Toronto).