Victor Albert Bailey
Victor Bailey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 December 1895 |
| Died | 7 December 1964 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Known for | Ionospheric physics Nicholson–Bailey model |
| Awards | Walter Burfitt Prize (1955) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Oxford University University of Sydney |
| John Sealy Edward Townsend | |
Notable students | Ronald Ernest Aitchison |
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
[edit]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.[1]
Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College, Oxford.[1]
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).[1]
Bailey married Joyce Hewitt in 1934. Their older son, John Maxwell Bailey, also became a physicist.[2]
Awards
[edit]- 1951: T. K. Sidey Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research.[3][4]
- 1955: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[1]
- 1955: Walter Burfitt Prize and A.D. Olle Award received from Royal Society of New South Wales[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Home, R. W. "Victor Albert Bailey (1895–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ↑ "Obituaries". Rhodes Trust. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
- ↑ "Background of the Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Recipients". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Victor Albert Bailey 1895-1964 | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au.
- 'Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, Archived 25 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- '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,
- 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.
External links
[edit]- Bright Sparcs biographical entry
- Australian Dictionary of Biography entry
- List of physics publications
- Bailey's neurotree profile
- Bailey's AAS entry Archived 21 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Bailey archives
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| Academics | |
| People | |
- Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford
- Australian people of Romanian descent
- 20th-century Australian physicists
- British people of Romanian descent
- 20th-century British physicists
- 1895 births
- 1964 deaths
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
- People from Alexandria
- Academic staff of the University of Sydney