| Authorised form of name | Gold; Ernest (1881 - 1976) |
| Dates | 1881 - 1976 |
| Place of birth | Berkswell, near Coventry, Warwickshire |
| Date of birth | 24 July 1881 |
| Place of death | 8 Hurst Lane, London NW11 |
| Date of death | 30/01/1976 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Meteorology |
| Activity | Education:
Mason's College, Birmingham; BA (1903) St John's College, Cambridge; MA
Career:
Served in the Great War (1915-1919); Assistant Director, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry (1919-)
Honours:
DSO 1916; OBE 1918; CB 1942
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1934-1935)
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1918 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 115-131, plate, by R C Sutcliffe and A C Best |
| Code | NA6378 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/17/291 | Referee's report by Ralph Allen Sampson, on a paper 'The isothermal layer of the atmosphere and atmospheric radiation' by Ernest Gold | 13 October 1908 |
| NLB/39/78 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] LArmor, Secretary of the Royal Society | 23 November 1908 |
| NLB/39/105 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to E [Ernest] Gold, St John's College, Cambridge | 26 November 1908 |
| NLB/42/1 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, Secretary RS to The Under Secretary of State for India | 5 March 1909 |
| NLB/52/808 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major Ernest Gold, Assistant Director of the Meteorological Office and FRS; G. H. Q, British Expeditionary Force, France | 29 February 1916 |
| RR/26/47 | Referee's report by Ernest Gold, on a paper 'Some problems connected with evaporation from large expanses of water' by M A Giblett | 12 May 1921 |
| RR/53/22 | Referee's report by Ernest Gold, on a paper 'The Götz inversion of intensity-ratio in zenith-scattered sunlight' by Sydney Chapman | [November 1934] |
| RR/56/5 | Referee's report by Ernest Gold, on a paper 'The thermal stability of the lower atmosphere' by A L Hales | 14 May 1935 |
| NLB/70/450 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lieutenant Colonel [Ernest] Gold, DSO, FRS | 7 April 1927 |
| IM/GA/WS/1272 | Gold, Ernest | 1946 |
| EC/1918/10 | Gold, Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MDA/C/10/3 | Correspondence of the Gassiot Committee | 1947-1953 |
| RR/45/55 | Referee's report by Ernest Gold, on a paper 'The lunar diurnal variation of atmospheric temperature at Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia], 1866-1928' by Sydney Chapman | 12 March 1932 |
| RR/65/285 | Referee's report by Ernest Gold on a paper 'The effects of thunderstorms and lightning discharges on the Earth's electric field' by T W Wormell | 27 November 1938 |