Arnold Wolfendale

Sir Arnold Wolfendale
Born	(1927-06-25)25 June 1927[1] Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom[2]
Died	21 December 2020(2020-12-21) (aged 93)[3] Durham, County Durham, England[3]
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Known for	Astronomer Royal Cosmic rays[4]
Spouse	Audrey Darby ​ (m. 1951⁠–⁠2007)​ Dorothy Middleton ​ (m. 2015)​
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1977)[5] Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1992) Knight Bachelor (1995) FInstP FRAS[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Manchester Durham University University of Ceylon University of Hong Kong
Thesis	The nuclear interactions of mu-mesons (1953)
Doctoral students	George Efstathiou

Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS^[5] (25 June 1927 – 21 December 2020)^[1][2][3] was a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. He was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University^[6] and was president of the European Physical Society (1999–2001).^{[4][7][8][9][10][11]} He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1983.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1998.^[12]

References

1. "WOLFENDALE, Sir Arnold (Whittaker)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
2. GRO Register of Births: SEP 1927 6d 1198a RUGBY – Arnold W. Wolfendale, mmn = Hoyle
3. The Times, 30 December, 2020, p49 (Subscription required)
4. 100 Years of Comic Rays: A Royal Society Lecture by Sir Arnold Wolfendale on YouTube
5. "Library and Archive Catalogue Wolfendale". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013.
6. "Prof Sir AW Wolfendale - Durham University". Durham University. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
7. Sloan, T.; Wolfendale, A. W. (2008). "Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover". Environmental Research Letters. 3 (2): 024001. arXiv:0803.2298. Bibcode:2008ERL.....3d4001S. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/024001. S2CID 18871353.
8. Wibig, T.; Wolfendale, A. W. (2005). "At what particle energy do extragalactic cosmic rays start to predominate?". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 31 (3): 255. arXiv:astro-ph/0410624. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/3/005. S2CID 29495899.
9. Bhat, C. L.; Issa, M. R.; Houston, B. P.; Mayer, C. J.; Wolfendale, A. W. (1985). "Cosmic γ rays and the mass of gas in the Galaxy". Nature. 314 (6011): 511. Bibcode:1985Natur.314..511B. doi:10.1038/314511a0. S2CID 4260315.
10. Arnold Wolfendale publications in Google Scholar
11. Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale, Debretts Biography Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
12. "Sir Arnold Wolfendale". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.