John Ashworth Ratcliffe | |
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 John Ashworth Ratcliffe, FRS © National Portrait Gallery, London | |
| Born | 12 December 1902 Bacup, England |
| Died | 25 October 1987 (aged 84) Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge[1] |
| Known for | Ionospheric physics |
| Spouse | Nora Disley |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | See list |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radio physics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge TRE in Dundee Radio Research Station |
| Academic advisors | Edward Appleton |
| Doctoral students | Basil Briggs Maurice Wilkes Joseph Lade Pawsey Ronald N. Bracewell Henry G. Booker |
| Other notable students | Martin Ryle |
John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB[2] CBE FRS[3] (known to intimates as "Jar";[4] 12 December 1902 – 25 October 1987) was an influential British radio physicist. (Several sources misspell his name as Radcliffe.)
- ^ RATCLIFFE, John Ashworth, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ "No. 43667". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1965. p. 5474.
- ^ Budden, Kenneth George (1988). "John Ashworth Ratcliffe. 12 December 1902-25 October 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 34: 670. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0022.
- ^ David O. Edge, Michael Joseph Mulkay, Astronomy Transformed: The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain, Wiley, 1976, p. 456.