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John Dylan Morgan (3 May 1946-5 March 2011) was a physicist, hypnotherapist and author.
Early Life
He was born in 1946 in Burnley, Lancashire to Morien and Elaine Morgan.
Education
He was educated at a Welsh-speaking primary school in Cwmdare, and Aberdare Boys Grammar School, in South Wales .
He had a scholarship to study Mathematics at Jesus College Oxford. He obtained a first class honours degree and then obtained a doctorate in Elementary Particle Theory from Oxford Univeristy.
Mathematical Physics
He joined the Mathematics Department of Dundee University in 1970 as a researcher. He worked on noise generated by high speed jet engines, as well as the noise generated by high speed helicopter rotors.
He also served as a Senior Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
His interest in theoretical physics despite his change of career direction to hypnotherapy and he published a number of papers in this area 2007,
Hypnotherapy
Motivated by a desire to help people in 1983 he decided on a change of career and decided to become a hypnotherapist. He was self-taught and this allowed him to work out his own original theory for guiding his practice. This theory is presented in his book The Principles of Hypnotherapy which aims to provide a complete theory of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
For a few years he also helped at the Leeds University Psychology Department to run courses on Hypnosis for qualified Doctors, Dentists etc.
He was the editor of the Journal of the National Council of Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapy Register from 1983-1987.
Personal Life
He married Trudi Yates, a fellow student at Oxford, in 1969. They had a daughter in 1981.
In February 2011 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and despite an operation to remove the tumour died on the 5th of March. His funeral was held at Lawnswood Crematorium in Leeds on the 22nd of March 2011.
Since his school days he had a keen interest in chess and later on he noted playing chess and making chess boards as his hobbies. He also maintained a number of web sites for chess clubs in the Leeds area
Bibliography
- Principles of Hypnotherapy, Eildon Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0952562014, ISBN-13: 978-0952562016
- Hypnosis for Beginners, Dylan Morgan, Eildon Press, 2008, ISBN-10: 0952562049, ISBN-13: 978-0952562047
References
- Aberdare Boys Grammar School, Dylan Morgan Obituary, http://www.abgs.org.uk/FormerPupils/dylanmorgan/jdm.html
- ‘Relating classical spinning particles to Dirac 4‐spinors’, 2002
- ‘An Iterative Approach to Scattering by Edges and Wedges’ with Professor Anthony Rawlins
- Alwoodley Chess Club http://www.alwoodleychessclub.org.uk/
- Leeds Chess Association http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dylan.morgan/LCA/index.html
External links
- Dylan Morgan's Website
- An iterative approach to scattering by edges and wedges, J. Dylan Morgan and Anthony D. Rawlins, Wave Motion Volume 44, Issue 3, January 2007, Pages 176-204
- The Aberdare Boys’ Grammar School - Dylan Morgan
- Dylan Morgan Biographical Notes
