| Authorised form of name | Budden; Kenneth George (1915 - 2005) |
| Dates | 1915 - 2005 |
| Date of birth | 23/06/1915 |
| Date of death | 04/09/2005 |
| Occupation | Theoretical Physicist |
| Research field | Ionosphere |
| Radio waves |
| Activity | Education:
Portsmouth Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge
Career:
First-class honours degree in Physics from Cambridge (1936); Research student, Cavendish Laboratory (1936-1939); Joined the Telecommuniations Research Establishment (TRE) at Worth Matravers, near Swanage, Dorset, researching applications of radar (1939); Sent to USA as member of the British Air Commission (1941); Sent to South-East Asia, to the Air Command, as a civilian consultant (1945); Returned to Cambridge as a demonstrator in the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of St John's College (1946); Appointed Reader in Physics (1965) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1966 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| PublishedWorks | Radio Waves in the Ionosphere (1961) |
| Source | Obituaries:
The Times (11 October 2005)
Biographical Memoir 2007, Volume 53, pp 109-126 by J P Dougherty |
| Code | NA4625 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WRS/9572 | Budden, Kenneth George | nd |
| EC/1966/03 | Budden, Kenneth George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/65/48 | Referee's report by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, on a paper 'Further investigations of very long waves reflected from the ionosphere' by Kenneth George Budden, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and Maurice Vincent Wilkes | December 1938 |
| RR/77/116 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The theory of the limiting polarization of radio waves reflected from the ionosphere' by Kenneth George Budden | 10 July 1952 |