Victor Albert Bailey

Infobox Scientist
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name = Victor Bailey


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caption = Victor Albert Bailey (1895-1964)
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birth_place = Alexandria, Egypt
death_date = death date and age|1964|12|7|1895|12|18|df=y
death_place = Geneva, Switzerland
residence = Australia
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nationality = British-Australian
ethnicity = English-Romanian
fields = Physicist
workplaces = Oxford University
University of Sydney
alma_mater = Oxford University
doctoral_advisor = nowrap|John Sealy Edward Townsend
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notable_students = Ronald Ernest Aitchison
known_for = Ionospheric physics
Nicholson-Bailey model
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influenced = Alexander John Nicholson
awards = Walter Burfitt Prize (1955)
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Victor Albert Bailey, 18 December, 1895, Alexandria, Egypt - 7 December 1964, Geneva, Switzerland was a British-Australian physicist. He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana, née Lazarus, an expatriate Romanian linguist.

He is notable for his work in Ionospheric physics and population dynamics.

Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford University and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College. In 1924 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. Bailey was subsequently promoted to Professor of Experimental Physics 1936-52 and Research Professor 1953-60.

Early years

* 1919 Bachelor of Arts in Physics (BA) completed at Queen's College, Oxford, UK
* 1923 Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) completed at Queen's College, Oxford, UK

His DPhil thesis was entitled: "The Diffusion of Ions in Gases" and was supervised by John Sealy Edward Townsend the Wykeham Professor of Physics and Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Awards

* 1955 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
* 1955 Walter Burfitt Prize and A D Olle Award received from Royal Society of New South Wales

References

* 'Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, [http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms032.txt]

* 'Bailey, Victor Albert', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000031p.htm]

* J. L. Hopper, "Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: A. J. Nicholson and V. A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations," "Historical Records of Australian Science" 7(2), pp. 179 - 188, 1987. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9880720179.htm]

ee also

*Nicholson-Bailey model

External links

* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000031b.htm Bright Sparcs biographical entry]
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130108b.htm "Australian Dictionary of Biography" entry]
* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000031p.htm List of physics publications]