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Authorised form of nameBagnold; Ralph Alger (1896 - 1990)
Dates1896 - 1990
Date of birth03 April 1896
Date of death28/05/1990
Research fieldGeophysics
ActivityCareer:
Soldier (Royal Engineers, Royal Corp of Signals, Brigadier by 1943), explorer, geophysicist
Honours:
OBE 1941
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1944
SourceAssocMaterial:
NCUACS 35/3/92. Papers deposited in Churchill College Archive Centre, Cambridge
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1991 vol 37 pp 55-68, plate, by Maurice J Kenn
CodeNA6387
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/57/89Referee's report by Gilbert Thomas Walker, on a paper 'The movement of desert sand' by Ralph Alger Bagnold[July 1936]
RR/65/16Referee's report by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, on a paper 'The measurement of sand storms' by Ralph Alger Bagnold1938
RR/61/22Referee's report by Bernard Augustus Keen, on a paper 'The size-garding of sand by wind' by Ralph Alger BagnoldJuly 1937
RR/69/8Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Motion of waves in shallow water. Interaction between waves and sand bottoms' by Ralph Alger Bagnold1945
IM/GA/WS/1578Bagnold, Ralph Alger1946
EC/1944/01Bagnold, Ralph Alger: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/57/90Referee's report by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, on a paper 'The movement of desert sand' by Ralph Alger Bagnold[July 1936]
PP/24/20/1Manuscript, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold1894
PP/24/20/2Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold1894
PP/24/20Paper, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold1894
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