| RefNo | EC/1966/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Budden, Kenneth George: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Mathematical Physicist. Distinguished for his original contributions to the theory of propagation of electromagnetic waves in a non-uniform anisotropic medium, particularly of long radio waves in the ionosphere, for which the properties of the medium change appreciably in a wave-length. This work shows a combination of physical insight and ability to select and use the appropriate mathematical techniques. He has also done important work on atmospherics, reciprocity relations, limiting polarisations, and analysis of (h',f) curves. He has had considerable success in using a digital computer in these investigations. He also played an important part in early experiments on the reflection of very long waves from the ionosphere. His books "Radio waves in the ionosphere" already published, and "The wave-guide mode theory of wave propagation" now with the press, provide scholarly and critical surveys of the field in which most of his work has been done. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: J A Ratcliffe; Edward V Appleton; D R BAtes; W L Bragg; H S W Massey; O R Frisch; N F Mott; Martin Ryle; A B Pippard; D Schoenberg; Maurice V Wilkes; John C Kendrew; J L Pawsey; D F Martyn; H Jeffreys |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4625 | Budden; Kenneth George (1915 - 2005) | 1915 - 2005 |