Graham Sutton

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Graham Sutton

CBE FRS
Born4 February 1903 Edit this on Wikidata
Cwmcarn Edit this on Wikidata
Died26 May 1977 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 74)
Swansea Edit this on Wikidata
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Occupation
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Sir Oliver Graham Sutton CBE FRS[1] (4 February 1903 – 26 May 1977) was a Welsh mathematician and meteorologist, notable particularly for theoretical work on atmospheric diffusion, boundary layer turbulence, and for his direction of the UK Meteorological Office.

Biography

Graham Sutton was born at

Honorary Fellowship in 1958).[2]

From 1926 to 1928 he was a lecturer at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the UK Meteorological Office as an assistant. He was seconded to Shoeburyness to work on the meteorological effects on gunnery practices and then transferred to Porton Down. There he undertook a project on atmospheric turbulence and diffusion which quantified the effect of meteorological conditions on the distribution of gas at ground level, findings which could not be released until after the war. Whilst working at Porton Down he was put in charge of tests related to Operation Vegetarian, which involved the release of anthrax spores over the uninhabited Gruinard Island as part of a biological warfare project.[3]

When the war ended, he was made Chief Superintendent of the

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
from 1967.

Honours and awards

He was elected a

CBE
in 1950 for his distinguished scientific services to the government.

He was elected president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1953 to 1955 and awarded their Symons Gold Medal for 1959.[5] He was knighted in 1955.

In 1958 Sutton was invited to co-deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious International Meteorological Organization Prize from the World Meteorological Organization.[6]

References

  1. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1978.0017
    .
  2. Who Was Who. Oxford University Press
    . December 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
  3. doi:10.1002/wea.253
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  4. ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  5. ^ "SUTTON, Sir OLIVER GRAHAM". The National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Winners of the IMO Prize". World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
Trade union offices
Preceded by Honorary President of the
Institution of Professional Civil Servants

1957–1961 		Succeeded by
Verney Stott
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