Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide CBE FRS (17 May 1929 – 6 September

2016) was a British physicist, who was a professor of Raymond Hide
physics at the University of Oxford and, since 2000,
senior research investigator at Imperial College,
London.

Life
Hide was educated at Percy Jackson Grammar School,
near Doncaster, South Yorkshire[3] and the University
of Manchester, where he obtained a first-class degree
in physics in 1950. He then went to Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge and studied for a PhD in the
Geophysics Department, he was awarded a doctorate
in 1953.
CBE FRS
After research at the University of Chicago, he was a Born 17 May 1929
senior research fellow at the Atomic Energy Research Died 6 September 2016 (aged 87)
Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire from 1954 to
Nationality British
1957. He was a lecturer in physics at King's College,
Citizenship British
Newcastle from 1957 to 1961, before becoming
professor of geophysics and physics at the Education DSc (1969)[2]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961 to 1967). Alma mater University of Manchester (1947-
He was then head of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 1950) and University of
Lab at the Met Office (1967 to 1990). He won the Cambridge (1950-1953)
Chree medal and prize in 1975. He was appointed a Scientific career
fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1983, holding his
Fields Physics
fellowship until 1996; he was then appointed an
honorary fellow in 1997. Between 1984 and 1990, he Institutions Jesus College, Oxford,
was the professor of astronomy at Gresham College, Imperial College, London
based central London.[4] He was director of the Robert Thesis Some Experiments on Thermal
Hooke Institute and a visiting professor in the Convection in a Rotating Liquid
Department of Physics at the University of Oxford (1953)
from 1990 to 1992. Doctoral Keith Runcorn[1]
advisor
His research covered geophysics (geomagnetism,
meteorology, geodesy, oceanography), planetary
physics, geophysical fluid mechanics, including magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), and nonlinear systems.
His work on the hydrodynamics and MHD of spinning fluids defined flow phenomena in atmospheres
and oceans and the interiors of planetary bodies.[5]
Hide was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964 and a fellow of the
Royal Society in 1971.[1] He was awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1982, the Gold
Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for geophysics in 1989, the William Bowie Medal by the
American Geophysical Union in 1997,[6] the Royal Society's Hughes Medal in 1998, Lewis Fry
Richardson Medal by the European Geosciences Union in 1999[7] and the Royal Meteorological Society's
Symons Gold Medal in 2002.

He was appointed CBE in 1990. He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1974 to
1976 and was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, having been appointed by Pope John
Paul II in 1996.

In 2000 he became senior research investigator, at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College
London.[8] He died on 6 September 2016 at the age of 87.[9]

References
1. Read, P. L. (2019). "Raymond Hide. 17 May 1929—6 September 2016" (https://doi.org/10.1
098%2Frsbm.2019.0016). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 67: 191–
215. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2019.0016 (https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frsbm.2019.0016).
S2CID 201098259 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:201098259).
2. "Raymond Hide CBE, ScD, FRS - Curriculum vitae" (https://www2.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Hi
de_Raymond/CV). Academia Europaea. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
3. Admissions Registers. Percy Jackson GS Collection, Doncaster Archives
4. List of Gresham Astronomy Professors and their lectures on the Gresham College website
(http://www.gresham.ac.uk/gresham-professor-of-astronomy) (accessed 19 November
2013)
5. "Professor Raymond Hide CBE" (https://www.rmets.org/professor-raymond-hide-cbe). Royal
Meteorological Society. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
6. Dickey, Jean O.; Hide, Raymond (1997). "Hide Receives the Bowie Medal" (https://agupubs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/97EO00195). Eos, Transactions American
Geophysical Union. 78 (29): 295–296. doi:10.1029/97EO00195 (https://doi.org/10.1029%2F
97EO00195). Retrieved 25 October 2024.
7. "Lewis Fry Richardson Medal 1999: Raymond Hide" (https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/le
wis-fry-richardson/1999/raymond-hide/). Retrieved 25 October 2024.
8. "Hide, Prof. Raymond" (http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U20075).
Who's Who 2008. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
9. "Professor Raymond Hide CBE" (https://www.rmets.org/professor-raymond-hide-cbe).
News. Royal Meteorological Society. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

External links
Raymond Hide CV - Imperial College London (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/workspace/people/
Public/r.hide/Imperial%20College%20Staff%20presentation%20(31%20January%202011).d
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Vacillation (in Russian)

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