Person Gaydon; Alfred Gordon (1911 - 2004); spectroscopist Gaydon Alfred Gordon spectroscopist Dick 1911 - 2004 British Male London, England 26/09/1911 19110926 England 16/04/2004 20040416

Spectroscopist Education: Kingston Grammar School; Royal College of Science (Imperial College), read Physics (1929) Career: Postgraduate research, Imperial College under Alfred Fowler; Cotton Research Association, Manchester, (1934-1936); lost an eye in a near fatal accident at the Shirley Institute of the Cotton Research Association (1936); returned to Imperial College; Royal Society Rumford Medal (1953); Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy, Imperial College (1961); Bernard Lewis Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute; Gaydon Award, British Section of the Combustion Institute - to be presented to a member of the British Section who is the author of the paper published in the Proceedings of the (Biennial) International Symposium on Combustion that is deemed to make the most significant contribution to combustion research (2002) Married (1940) Phyllis Gaze (died 1981) Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1960 Fellow 19/03/1953 41 Sources: Lives Remembered in The Times (24/05/2004); Obituary in Daily Telegraph (21/06/2004) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 169-184, plate, by F J Weinberg FRS ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-20007 26 Sep 1911 - NA5173 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 76388bdd-3d79-4530-90a4-b55c28abd43d