Person Schonland; Sir; Basil Ferdinand Jamieson (1896 - 1972) Schonland Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Sir 1896 - 1972 South African Male Grahamstown, South Africa 05 February 1896 Winchester, Hampshire 24/11/1972 19721124

Atmospheric electricity Lightning Scientific administration Geophysics Education: Rhodes University College; Cambridge Career: Interrupted Cambridge Tripos to serve with Royal Engineers in Great War; Lieutenant, commanded 43 Airline Section, IV Army, British Expeditionary Force (1916); Wireless Research Officer, General Headquarters Central Wireless School, Montreuil (1917-1918); acting Captain, Wireless Officer, VI Army Corps (1918); Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1922); 1851 Exhibitioner (1928); Carnegie Travelling Fellow (1934); Secretary, Royal Society of South Africa (1929-1934); Chairman, Lightning Research sub-Committee, SA Institution of Electrical Engineers (1932); President, Section A, SA Association for the Advancement of Science (1935); Chairman, SA National Committee on Scientific Radio-Telegraphy (1936); Professor of Physics, Cape Town (1936); Professor of Geophysics and Director, Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics, University of the Witwatersand , South Africa (1937-1954); Major, commanded Special Wireless Section, SA Corps of Signals (1939); Lieutenant Colonel, RDF [Radar] adviser to SA High Commissioner, London (1941); Superintendent, Air Defence Research Development Establishment Operational Research Group, Petersham (1941); Brigadier, Superintendent, Army Operational Research Group (1943); Scientific Adviser, 21st Army Group (1944); Founding President, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa (1945-1950); Deputy Director (1954-1958), Director, Head of Research Group (1958-1961), Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; Chancellor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown (1951-1962); Pro-Chancellor, University of Southampton (1960-1962); President (Physics and Mathematics), British Association (1962) Honours: CBE 1948; Kt 1960 Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1945 Lectures: Wilkins 1955 Fellow 17/03/1938 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 629-653, plate, by T E Allibone References: F R N Nabarro, 'A scientist of the Commonwealth. Schonland, scientist and soldier, by B Austin' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 396-398 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 5 Feb 1896 - 24 Nov 1972 NA6907 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 81748f36-e8e6-422e-8778-e2cdbaf5d214