biography
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| (1888–1970)
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| biography:
| Applied mathematician and geophysicist, born in Eccles, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied engineering at Manchester, and mathematics at Cambridge, and was professor at Manchester (1919–24), Imperial College, London (1924–46), and Oxford (1946–53). From 1954 he worked at the High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, CO, and the Geophysical Institute in Alaska. He made a major contribution to the kinetic theory of gases, and developed the theory of thermal diffusion. He also developed theories on geomagnetism, atmospheric tides, and geomagnetic storms. |
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