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Authorised form of nameBrunt; Sir; David (1886 - 1965)
Dates1886 - 1965
Date of birth17 June 1886
Date of death05/02/1965
Research fieldMeteorology
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1949; KBE 1959
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1942-1944)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1939
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Sec 1948-1957; VP 1949-1957
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1944
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1965 vol 11 pp 41-52, plate, by O G Sutton
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/110026125
CodeNA1173
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/000037Group photograph of Officers of the Royal Society 1945-50c 1945-50
EC/1939/05Brunt, Sir David: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/2863Brunt, Sir Davidnd
MDA/A/16/39Table of details of past Physical Science Secretaries of Royal Society17 October 1955
MDA/A/16/41Copy letter from David Christie Martin to Thomas Ralph Merton17 October 1955
EXP/11/1/1/196Halley Bay expedition, file 'IGY Finance Estimates 1958-9', SCAR/IGY, Antarctic Treaty Documents 1956-1959
RR/32/32Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Periodicities in European weather' by David Brunt26 June 1925
RR/26/22Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The dynamics of revolving fluid on a rotating earth' by David Brunt[April 1921]
RR/69/233Letter from David Brunt, on an unnamed paper by Merton to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton3 October 1946
RR/41/36Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'Some phenomena connected with the transfer of heat by radiation and turbulence in the lower atmosphere' by David BruntOctober 1930
RR/69/84Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Turbulence and diffusion in the lower atmosphere with particular reference to the lateral effect' by D R Davies1946
RR/69/77Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Sublimation in a Wilson chamber' by B M Cwilong1946
RR/70/193Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Natural evaporation from open water, bare soil and grass' by Howard Latimer Penman1947
RR/72/249Note from David Brunt, on a paper 'The mechanics of large bubbles rising through extended liquids and through liquids in tubes' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and R M Davies1949
RR/69/48Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'The escape of molecules from a plane surface into a still atmosphere' by K J Brookfield, H D N Fitzpatrick, J F Jackson, J B Matthews and E A Moelwyn-Hughes to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 November 1946
RR/70/21Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Decay of isotropic turbulence in the initial period' by George Keith Batchelor and Albert Alan Townsend1947
RR/72/188Note from David Brunt, on a paper 'Cellular atmospheric waves in the ionosphere and troposphere' by D F Martyn4 September 1949
RR/69/85Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'Turbulence and diffusion in the lower atmosphere with particular reference to the lateral effect' by D R Davies to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society19 December 1946
RR/71/108Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'A note on polar air-mass modification' by R Frost[1948]
RR/69/251Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'Vertical transport of heat by turbulence in the atmosphere' by Charles Henry Brian Priestley and W C Swinbank to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton23 September 1946
RR/68/462Letter from David Brunt, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'Turbulence and diffusion in the lower atmosphere' by R Frost15 March 1945
RR/68/466Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Evaporation and turbulence' by R Frost and F J W Whipple[1944]
RR/69/20Letter from David Brunt, on a paper '[The crystal structure of sucrose sodium bromide dihydrate]' by C A Beevers and William Cochran to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton14 October 1946
RR/68/464Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Turbulence and diffusion in the lower atmosphere' by R Frost[1944]
RR/68/465Letter from David Brunt, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'Evaporation and turbulence' by R Frost and F J W Whipple11 February 1943
RR/68/452Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity of an ionized gas in a magnetic field, with applications to the solar atmosphere and the ionosphere' by Thomas George Cowling[1944]
RR/69/46Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'The escape of molecules from a plane surface into a still atmosphere' by K J Brookfield, H D N Fitzpatrick, J F Jackson, J B Matthews and E A Moelwyn-Hughes15 January 1946
RR/69/47Letter from David Brunt, on a paper 'The escape of molecules from a plane surface into a still atmosphere' by K J Brookfield, H D N Fitzpatrick, J F Jackson, J B Matthews and E A Moelwyn-Hughes to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton12 February 1946
RR/32/33Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Periodicities in European weather' by David BruntJune 1925
NLB/65/838Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor, FRS17 January 1924
IM/000625Brunt, Sir Davidnd
RR/26/21Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'The dynamics of revolving fluid on a rotating earth' by David Brunt[May 1921]
NLB/64/634Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor, Esq. FRS17 May 1923
IM/006417Group photograph of Officers of the Royal Society 1945-50c 1945-50
RR/72/277Letter from Percival Hartley, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff to David Brunt 25 September 1949
IM/000626Brunt, Sir Davidnd
RR/69/250Referee's report by David Brunt, on a paper 'Vertical transport of heat by turbulence in the atmosphere' by Charles Henry Brian Priestley and W C Swinbank1946
RR/28/70Referee's report by George Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The dynamics of cyclones and anticyclones regarded as atmospheric vortices' by David Brunt30 April 1923
RR/68/463Second letter from David Brunt, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'Turbulence and diffusion in the lower atmosphere' by R Frost16 April 1945
MS/421/9Register of Papers submitted to the Royal Society, series A, 1939-19511939-1951
RR/72/31Letter from Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to David Brunt12 September 1949
RR/73/72Letter from William Lawrence Bragg, on four papers by William Keith Burton, Nicolás Cabrera and Frederick Charles Frank to David Brunt10 May 1950
RR/72/275Letter from Solly Zuckerman, on a paper 'The transplantation of normal tissues: with special reference to auto- and homotransplants of thyroid and spleen in the anterior chamber of the eye, and subcutaneously, in guinea-pigs' by Michael Francis Addison Woodruff and Hazel G Woodruff to David Brunt4 October 1949
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