| Authorised form of name | Bullard; Sir; Edward Crisp (1907 - 1980); geophysicist |
| Dates | 1907 - 1980 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 21/09/1907 |
| Place of death | La Jolla, California, USA |
| Date of death | 03/04/1980 |
| Research field | Geophysics |
| Activity | Education:
Repton School
Honours:
Kt 1953
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1941 |
| Age at election | 33 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1946-1947
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1953; Royal Medal 1975
Lectures:
Bakerian 1967 |
| Sources | Sources:
DSB vol 17 pp 119-125
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 100/4/84. Papers deposited in Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1987 vol 33 pp 65-98, plate, by D P McKenzie
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 |
| Royal Society code | NA6392 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/3/2/4/10/3 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard on geophysics research in USA | 1961 |
| PB/3/2/4/14/12 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard | February-September 1964 |
| PB/3/2/4/11/2 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard on recent papers | 1963 |
| PB/3/2/1/18/10/7 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard re Blackett's Climatology paper | c.1961 |
| PB/3/2/1/4 | Notes, drafts and papers by Sir Edward Bullard, J Maddox, N Kawai, JW Graham and others, some annotated by Blackett | 1953-1956 |
| PB/4/11/8/5 | Letter from Sir Edward Bullard | January 1946 |
| PB/3/2/4/15/8 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard | 1965 |
| PB/3/2/4/16/18 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard | 1966 |
| PB/3/2/4/3/2 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard re paper by JA Clegg | 1954 |
| PB/4/11/14 | Letter and notes on uranium prospecting from Sir Edward Bullard | March 1946 |
| PB/3/2/4/1/3 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard on T Nagata's findings | 1952 |
| PB/8/6/7 | Papers and talks on science and society by others, collected by Blackett, many annotated by him. | c.1943-1945 |
| PB/4/11/8/2 | Letter from EC Bullard re uranium 235 and 238 | December 1945 |
| PB/3/2/4/18/2 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard | 1968 |
| PB/3/1/3/3/7 | Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard following Blackett's 1947 paper on magnetism | October 1947-June 1950 |
| EC/1941/03 | Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/596 | Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp | nd |
| PB/9/2/3/11/19 | Personal references and appointments: R | |
| TG/1/2/3 | Letter from Thomas Gold to Sir Edward Bullard, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge, England | 2 July 1964 |
| IM/GA/AR/7276 | Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp | nd |
| RR/45/8 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The elastic scattering of slow electrons in gases.—II' by Edward Crisp Bullard and Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | [August 1931] |
| RR/49/47 | Referee's report by George Clarke Simpson, on a paper 'The observation of gravity by means of invariable pendulums' by Edward Crisp Bullard | 26 March 1933 |
| RR/66/40 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Heat flow in South Africa' by Edward Crisp Bullard | [August 1939] |
| RR/67/38 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Comparison of the acceleration due to gravity at the National Laboratory, Teddington and the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C' by B C Browne and Edward Crisp Bullard | January 1940 |
| RR/71/62 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The determination of the masses necessary to produce a given gravitational field' by Edward Crisp Bullard and R I B Cooper | [1948] |
| RR/71/61 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The magnetic field within the earth' by Edward Crisp Bullard | 15 December 1948 |
| RR/71/178 | Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'The disturbance due to a line source in a semi-infinite elastic medium' by E R Lapwood | [1948] |
| WF/185 | Grant application from the University of Cambridge to the Wolfson Foundation | 1965-1969 |
| PB/1/33/3/1 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| PB/4/7/1/2 | 'Scientists at the Operational Level - Notes on the Statement to Admiralty Panel on 16.9.41 on the function of an Operational Research Station' | 1941 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8887 | Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp | nd |
| RR/66/41 | Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Seismic investigations on the Palaeozoic floor of east England' by Edward Crisp Bullard, T F Gaskell, W B Harland and C Kerr-Grant | [October 1939] |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| RR/66/42 | Referee's report by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, on a paper 'Seismic investigations on the Palaeozoic floor of east England' by Edward Crisp Bullard, T F Gaskell, W B Harland and C Kerr-Grant | [November 1939] |
| RR/67/41 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Submarine seismic investigations' by Edward Crisp Bullard and T F Gaskell | October 1940 |