| Authorised form of name | Ratcliffe; John Ashworth (1902 - 1987) |
| Dates | 1902 - 1987 |
| Date of birth | 12/12/1902 |
| Date of death | 25/10/1987 |
| Activity | Honours:
OBE 1947; CBE 1959; CB 1965
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1966
Lectures:
Rutherford 1966 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1988 vol 34 pp 669-711, plate, by K G Budden |
| Code | NA2004 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/4150 | Ratcliffe, John Ashworth | nd |
| PB/9/2/3/11/20 | Personal references and appointments: R | |
| PB/1/33/3/6 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| RR/61/48 | Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on a paper 'Studies of region E of the Ionosphere' by J E Best, F T Farmer and John Ashworth Ratcliffe | October 1937 |
| RR/57/102 | Referee's report by William Henry Eccles, on a paper 'Experimental investigations of very long waves reflected from the ionosphere' by J E Best, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and Maurice Vincent Wilkes | [May 1936] |
| RR/70/200 | Referee's report by Phillip Ivor Dee, on a paper 'A study of the interaction of radio waves' by John Ashworth Ratcliffe and I J Shaw | 1947 |
| RR/72/36 | Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'Diffraction from an irregular screen with applications to ionospheric problems' by H G Booker, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and D H Shinn | 1949 |
| PB/1/33/1/8 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8669 | Ratcliffe, John Ashworth | nd |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| EC/1951/20 | Ratcliffe, John Ashworth: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/41/7 | Referee's report by William Henry Eccles, on a paper 'Some simultaneous observations on downcoming wireless waves' by Edward Victor Appleton and John Ashworth Ratcliffe | April 1930 |
| RR/65/48 | Referee's report by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, on a paper 'Further investigations of very long waves reflected from the ionosphere' by Kenneth George Budden, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and Maurice Vincent Wilkes | December 1938 |