Victor Albert Bailey

Victor Bailey
Born (1895-12-18)18 December 1895
Alexandria, Egypt
Died 7 December 1964(1964-12-07) (aged 68)
Geneva, Switzerland
Residence Australia
Nationality British–Australian
Fields Physicist
Institutions Oxford University
University of Sydney
Alma mater Oxford University
Doctoral advisor John Sealy Edward Townsend
Notable students Ronald Ernest Aitchison
Known for Ionospheric physics
Nicholson–Bailey model
Influenced Alexander John Nicholson
Notable awards Walter Burfitt Prize (1955)

Victor Albert Bailey (18 December 1895 – 7 December 1964) was a British-Australian physicist. The eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana (née Lazarus), an expatriate Romanian linguist, Bailey is notable for his work in ionospheric physics and population dynamics.

Biography

Bailey read physics at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1919. Thereafter, he read for a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.) at Queen's College, under the supervision of John Sealy Edward Townsend, the Wykeham Professor of Physics and Fellow of New College, Oxford. His D.Phil. thesis was entitled "The Diffusion of Ions in Gases", and he graduated in 1923.

Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College, Oxford.

In 1924, he was appointed as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. Bailey was subsequently promoted to Professor of Experimental Physics (1936–52) and Research Professor (1953–60).

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Background of the Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Recipients". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
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