Rhodes University, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Awards
Order of Mapungubwe (2002) IET Faraday Medal (1962) Wilkins Lecture (1955) Bernard Price Memorial Lecture (1951) Elliott Cresson Medal (1945) Hughes Medal (1945) Chree Medal and Prize (1943) Fellow of the Royal Society (1938) Order of the British Empire (1919)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland OMG CBE FRS[1] (2 February 1896 – 24 November 1972) was noted for his research on lightning,[2] his involvement in the development of radar during World War II and for being the first president of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.[3]
^Allibone, T. E. (1973). "Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland. 1896-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 19: 628–653. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0023.
^"Obituary: Sir Basil Schonland". Physics Today. 26 (2): 66–67. February 1973. Bibcode:1973PhT....26b..66.. doi:10.1063/1.3127962.
^Austin, Brian (2001). Schonland: Scientist and Soldier: From lightning on the veld to nuclear power at Harwell: the life of Field Marshal Montgomery's scientific adviser. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3357-1.
Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland OMG CBE FRS (2 February 1896 – 24 November 1972) was noted for his research on lightning, his involvement in the...
Schonland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: BasilSchonland (1896–1972), South African physicist Herbert Emery Schonland (1900–1984)...
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resources of BPI be devoted to this effort for the duration of the war. BasilSchonland, a world-recognized authority on lightning detection and analysis,...
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engineering department of the University of the Witwatersrand (under BasilSchonland). The TRL relocated to the South African Council for Scientific and...
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UK public library membership required.) "Janus: The Papers of Sir BasilSchonland". Janus. Retrieved 6 February 2009. "Wageningen UR — Wageningen University —...
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was BasilSchonland. When World War II began in 1939, the South African Defense Force ordered the BPI to contribute to the war effort. Schonland led the...
intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language Sir BasilSchonland, Honorary Doctor of Science (1957); founding director of the Bernard...
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