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RefNoEC/1927/05
Previous numbersCert XIV, 28; A01972
LevelItem
TitleDobson, Gordon Miller Bourne: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationDistinguished for his work in Meteorological Physics. As Major in the RFC was in charge of instrument research for the Air Force at Farnborough and at the Air Ministry, and designed many aircraft instruments now in use. Author of papers in the Proc Roy Soc and other journals: 'Pilot Balloon Ascents,' 'Atmospheric Turbulence,' 'Winds and Temperature Gradients,' 'Sensitive Photo-electric Photometer,' 'The Sun's Ultra-violet Radiation,' 'Ozone in the Upper Atmosphere'; also with F A Lindemann on 'Meteors and the Conditions of the Upper Atmosphere.'
ProposersF A Lindemann; Napier Shaw; H H Turner; G C Simpson; G I Taylor; E Gold; J W Nicholson; Harold Jeffreys; Rayleigh
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Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7033Dobson; Gordon Miller Bourne (1889 - 1976)1889 - 1976
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