| Authorised form of name | Schonland; Sir; Basil Ferdinand Jamieson (1896 - 1972) |
| Dates | 1896 - 1972 |
| Nationality | South African |
| Place of birth | Grahamstown, South Africa |
| Date of birth | 05 February 1896 |
| Place of death | Winchester, Hampshire |
| Date of death | 24/11/1972 |
| Research field | Atmospheric electricity |
| Lightning |
| Scientific administration |
| Geophysics |
| Activity | Education:
Rhodes University College; Cambridge
Career:
Interrupted Cambridge Tripos to serve with Royal Engineers in Great War; Lieutenant, commanded 43 Airline Section, IV Army, British Expeditionary Force (1916); Wireless Research Officer, General Headquarters Central Wireless School, Montreuil (1917-1918); acting Captain, Wireless Officer, VI Army Corps (1918); Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1922); 1851 Exhibitioner (1928); Carnegie Travelling Fellow (1934); Secretary, Royal Society of South Africa (1929-1934); Chairman, Lightning Research sub-Committee, SA Institution of Electrical Engineers (1932); President, Section A, SA Association for the Advancement of Science (1935); Chairman, SA National Committee on Scientific Radio-Telegraphy (1936); Professor of Physics, Cape Town (1936); Professor of Geophysics and Director, Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics, University of the Witwatersand , South Africa (1937-1954); Major, commanded Special Wireless Section, SA Corps of Signals (1939); Lieutenant Colonel, RDF [Radar] adviser to SA High Commissioner, London (1941); Superintendent, Air Defence Research Development Establishment Operational Research Group, Petersham (1941); Brigadier, Superintendent, Army Operational Research Group (1943); Scientific Adviser, 21st Army Group (1944); Founding President, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa (1945-1950); Deputy Director (1954-1958), Director, Head of Research Group (1958-1961), Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; Chancellor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown (1951-1962); Pro-Chancellor, University of Southampton (1960-1962); President (Physics and Mathematics), British Association (1962)
Honours:
CBE 1948; Kt 1960 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1938 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1945
Lectures:
Wilkins 1955 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 629-653, plate, by T E Allibone
References:
F R N Nabarro, 'A scientist of the Commonwealth. Schonland, scientist and soldier, by B Austin' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 396-398 |
| Code | NA6907 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/42/42 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'Thunder-storms and the penetrating radiation' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | September 1930 |
| RR/36/65 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The polarity of thunderclouds' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 27 November 1927 |
| RR/36/64 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The electric fields of South African thunderstorms' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland and J Craib | [January 1927] |
| RR/50/133 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland and H Collens | October 1933 |
| RR/36/66 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The interchange of electricity between thunderclouds and the Earth' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 27 November 1927 |
| RR/56/95 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning—II' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D J Malan and H Collens | [June 1935] |
| RR/63/89 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning IV-The discharge mechanism' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | October 1937 |
| RR/67/144 | Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The wave form of atmospherics at night' by J S Elder, Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges, W E Phillips and J W Van Wyk | May 1940 |
| RR/68/438 | Second referee's report by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, on a paper 'The initiation of long electrical discharges' by C E R Bruce | 30 April 1944 |
| RR/70/160 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning. VII Directly-correlated photographic and electrical studies of lightning from near thunderstorms' by D J Malan and Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 1947 |
| RR/68/437 | Referee's report by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, on a paper 'The initiation of long electrical discharges' by C E R Bruce | 13 November 1943 |
| EC/1938/14 | Schonland, Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/65/230 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'Progressive lightning V. A comparison of photographic and electrical studies of the discharge process' Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, D B Hodges and H Collens | January 1938 |
| RR/73/289 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees, on a paper 'The electrical processes in the intervals between the strokes of a lightning discharge' by D J Malan and Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Scholand | 29 November 1950 |
| RR/75/119 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The distribution of electricity in thunder-clouds' by D J Malan and Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 20 May 1951 |
| RR/75/120 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The distribution of electricity in thunder-clouds' by D J Malan and Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 28 May 1951 |
| RR/79/111 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'The pilot-streamer in lightning and the long spark' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 28 January 1953 |
| RSC/5/13/82 | Copy letter from [Miss Bushell?], to Col B J [Basil Ferdinand] Schonland, Ibstock Place, Clarence Lane, Roehampton, London | 6 April 1943 |
| RSC/5/13/71 | Copy letter from [Edward John Russell], to Colonel B F J Schonland, Instock Place, Clarence Road, Roehampton, London | 16 January 1943 |
| RSC/5/13/75 | Letter from B J [Basil Ferdinand] Schonland, Star & Garter Hotel, Richmond, to Sir John [Russell] | 21 January 1943 |
| RSC/5/13/81 | Letter from B J [Basil Ferdinand] Schonland, Ibstock Place, Clarence Lane, Roehampton, to Sir John [Russell] | 5 April 1943 [?] |