G. M. B. Dobson

George Dobson
Born
George Miller Bourne Dobson

(1889-02-25)25 February 1889
Knott End, Windermere
Died10 March 1976(1976-03-10) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forBrewer–Dobson circulation
Dobson unit
Dobson spectrometer
Spouses
  • Winifred Duncombe Rimer (married 1914-52)
  • Olive Mary Bacon (married 1954-76)
Children3
AwardsFRS (1927)
Symons Gold Medal (1939)
Rumford Medal (1942)
Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1945)
Chree medal and prize (1949)
CBE (1951)
Scientific career
FieldsAtmospheric physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson CBE FRS[1] (25 February 1889 – 10 March 1976) was a British physicist and meteorologist who did important work on ozone.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Dobson G. M. B. (1968). "40 Years Research on Atmospheric Ozone at Oxford - A History" (PDF). Applied Optics. 7 (3): 387–405. Bibcode:1968ApOpt...7..387D. doi:10.1364/AO.7.000387. PMID 20068600.
  3. ^ Dobson G. M. B. (1973). "The laminated structure of the ozone in the atmosphere". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 99 (422): 599–607. doi:10.1256/smsqj.42201.