Arnold Wolfendale

Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Born(1927-06-25)25 June 1927
Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Died21 December 2020(2020-12-21) (aged 93)
Durham, County Durham, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Known forAstronomer Royal
Cosmic rays
Spouse
Audrey Darby
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(m. 1951⁠–⁠2007)​
Dorothy Middleton
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(m. 2015)​
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1977)
Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1992)
Knight Bachelor (1995)
FInstP
FRAS
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Durham University
University of Ceylon
University of Hong Kong
ThesisThe nuclear interactions of mu-mesons (1953)
Doctoral studentsGeorge Efstathiou

Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS (25 June 1927 – 21 December 2020) was a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. He was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University and was president of the European Physical Society (1999–2001). He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1983.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1998.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "WOLFENDALE, Sir Arnold (Whittaker)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. 1 2 GRO Register of Births: SEP 1927 6d 1198a RUGBY – Arnold W. Wolfendale, mmn = Hoyle
  3. 1 2 3 The Times, 30 December, 2020, p49 (Subscription required)
  4. 1 2 100 Years of Comic Rays: A Royal Society Lecture by Sir Arnold Wolfendale on YouTube
  5. 1 2 "Library and Archive Catalogue Wolfendale". London: The Royal Society.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ "Prof Sir AW Wolfendale - Durham University". Durham University. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Sloan, T.; Wolfendale, A. W. (2008). "Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover". Environmental Research Letters. 3 (2) 024001. arXiv:0803.2298. Bibcode:2008ERL.....3d4001S. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/024001. S2CID 18871353.
  8. ↑ Wibig, T.; Wolfendale, A. W. (2005). "At what particle energy do extragalactic cosmic rays start to predominate?". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 31 (3): 255. arXiv:astro-ph/0410624. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/3/005. S2CID 29495899.
  9. ↑ Bhat, C. L.; Issa, M. R.; Houston, B. P.; Mayer, C. J.; Wolfendale, A. W. (1985). "Cosmic γ rays and the mass of gas in the Galaxy". Nature. 314 (6011): 511. Bibcode:1985Natur.314..511B. doi:10.1038/314511a0. S2CID 4260315.
  10. ↑ Arnold Wolfendale publications in Google Scholar
  11. ↑ Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale, Debretts Biography Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "Sir Arnold Wolfendale". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.