Fellow of the Royal Society (1977)[1] Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1992) Knight Bachelor (1995) FInstP FRAS[2]
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[3]
Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS[1][6] (25 June 1927 – 21 December 2020)[2][4][5] was a British astronomer who served as the fourteenth Astronomer Royal from 1991[7] to 1995. He was Professor of Physics at Durham University from 1965 until 1992[8] and served as president of the European Physical Society (1999–2001).[9] He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1983.[10]
^ abc"Library and Archive Catalogue Wolfendale". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013.
^ abc"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)
^"Profile: Prof. Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS". Astronomy & Geophysics. 49 (4): 4.11–4.12. 2008. Bibcode:2008A&G....49d..11.. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49411.x.
^ abGRO Register of Births: SEP 1927 6d 1198a RUGBY – Arnold W. Wolfendale, mmn = Hoyle
^ abThe Times, 30 December 2020, p49 (Subscription required)
^Ellis, Richard S.; Watson, Alan A. (2022). "Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale. 25 June 1927—21 December 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 72: 407–430. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2021.0028. S2CID 245355111.
^The London Gazette, 8 February 1991, Issue 52444 Page 2061
^"Prof Sir AW Wolfendale - Durham University". Durham University. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
^Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale, Debretts Biography Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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