Miles Barnett | |
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| President of the Royal Society of New Zealand | |
| In office 1964–1964 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Fleming |
| Succeeded by | Charles Fleming |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett 30 April 1901 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 27 March 1979 (aged 77) Waikanae, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Appleton–Barnett layer Ionospheric physics |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1947) FInstP (1929) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Meteorological Service |
| Thesis | An experimental proof of large-angled deviation of wireless waves in the upper atmosphere (1927) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Victor Appleton |
Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett OBE (30 April 1901 – 27 March 1979) was a New Zealand physicist and meteorologist. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, he studied in that country but obtained his PhD in the United Kingdom at the University of Cambridge. He worked there on the propagation of radio waves and the ionosphere. Later, he returned in New Zealand where he helped with the development of the Meteorological Office, becoming its director in 1939, just before the start of World War II. After the war, he participated in the transition between the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) and the new United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO).