Victor Albert Bailey
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College, Oxford.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Bailey married Joyce Hewitt in 1934. Their older son, John Bailey, also became a physicist.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Awards
- 1951: T. K. Sidey Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research.[1][2]
- 1955: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[3]
- 1955: Walter Burfitt Prize and A.D. Olle Award received from Royal Society of New South Wales[4]
References
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- 'Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, [1]
- 'Bailey, Victor Albert', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, [2]
- J. L. Hopper, "Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: A. J. Nicholson and V. A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations," Historical Records of Australian Science 7(2), pp. 179 – 188, 1987. [3] [4]
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- Australian people of Romanian descent
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- 1895 births
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- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
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- Academic staff of the University of Sydney