Albert Thomas Price
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Albert Thomas Price (30 January 1903 – 13 December 1978) was a British geophysicist.[1]
He was born in
In 1925 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at
In the 1930s his work was primarily on the subject of geomagnetism, developing mathematical models which proved the validity of global electromagnetic induction. During the Second World War Price acted as a scientific consultant to the Admiralty and various government departments, working on such problems as underwater explosions and rocket-assisted parachute deceleration. Towards the end of the war he collaborated on the work on floating breakwaters which were used in the Normandy landing. After the war he resumed his work on geomagnetism, developing the theory of induction in thin sheets.
In 1969 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for his work on geomagnetism, especially for his study of the electrical conductivity of the Earth's core.
The Price Medal, awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for outstanding work in geophysics, is named in his honour.
He was married to Ann. He died in 1978 at the age of 75.
References
- Bibcode:1979QJRAS..20..328.Retrieved 27 November 2016.