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Residence
  
Australia

Role
  
Name
  
Victor Bailey

Fields
  
Physicist

Alma mater
  
Oxford University

Nationality
  
British–Australian


Born
  
18 December 1895Alexandria, Egypt (
1895-12-18
)

Institutions
  
Oxford UniversityUniversity of Sydney

Doctoral advisor
  
John Sealy Edward Townsend

Known for
  
Ionospheric physicsNicholson–Bailey model

Died
  
December 7, 1964, Geneva, Switzerland

Influenced
  
Alexander John Nicholson

Notable students
  

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.

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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

  • 1951: T. K. Sidey Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research.
  • 1955: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
  • 1955: Walter Burfitt Prize and A.D. Olle Award received from Royal Society of New South Wales
  • References

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