Reginald Sutcliffe
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Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe FRS[1] (16 November 1904 – 28 May 1991) was a British meteorologist.[2]
Born in
Sutcliffe first made a major impact with the publication in 1939 of his book Meteorology for Aviators, which became essential reading for
During and after the war, Sutcliffe also worked on the theory of meteorology, and his most important contribution was to use pressure instead of height as vertical co-ordinate in the atmosphere.
Sutcliffe retired from the Met Office in 1965, but did not end his career. Noting the lack of university-level education in meteorology in the UK, he founded a new meteorological department at the
Works
- Meteorology for aviators, London : H.M.S.O, 1939
- Weather and climate, London : Weidenfeld, Nicolson, 1966
Honours and awards
In 1955 he was awarded the Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society.[3] He held many posts outside the Met Office, including serving as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1955 to 1957, and the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics from 1967 to 1971.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957;[1] a development which was widely seen as confirmation that meteorology had been accepted as a true science.
He won the
In 1963 he was awarded the International Meteorological Organization Prize of the World Meteorological Organization.[4]
Further reading
- Jonathan E. Martin: Reginald Sutcliffe and the invention of modern weather systems science, West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021], ISBN 978-1-61249-637-5
References
- ^ JSTOR 770010.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49991. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ "Winners of the IMO Prize". World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.