Ernest Gold (meteorologist)

Ernest Gold
Born24 July 1881 Edit this on Wikidata
Died30 January 1976 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 94)
Hendon (United Kingdom) Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationMeteorologist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
Mason University College, now the University of Birmingham

Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS[1] (24 July 1881 – 30 January 1976) was a British meteorologist.[2][3][4]

He was born at Berkswell, near Coventry and educated at Mason University College (which later became the University of Birmingham)[5] and St John's College, Cambridge.[6]

Gold set up the first operational (military) meteorological service and demonstrated the vital role of meteorologists to the military hierarchy. He was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO and OBE and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Gold oversaw not only the creation of an operational weather service but also the development of international aviation services, becoming President of the Commission for Synoptic Weather Information of the International Meteorological Organization (now the World Meteorological Organization).

In 1919 he became deputy director of the Meteorological Office.[7]

He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society for 1934–35.[8]

  1. ^ Sutcliffe, R. C.; Best, A. C. (1977). "Ernest Gold. 24 July 1881 -- 30 January 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 23: 115–131. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0006. JSTOR 769611. S2CID 73286370.
  2. ^ "Ernest Gold, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.O., F.R.S. President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1934–1936". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 102 (434): 945–947. 1976. Bibcode:1976QJRMS.102..945.. doi:10.1002/qj.49710243425.
  3. ^ Anon (2004). "Gold, Ernest (1881–1976), meteorologist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31155. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ ‘GOLD, Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U154896 (subscription required)
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Gold, Ernest (GLT900E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ http://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/hist08.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference FRS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).