Raymond Hide#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 215 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Raymond Hide passed away September 5, 2016.
Positions Held
- 2000- Senior Research Investigator, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
- 1994 Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
- Individual Merit Scientist (DCSO 1967-75, Chief Scientific Officer 1975-92), U. K. Meteorological Office, Bracknell (Founder and Director of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, later transferred to Oxford University): Professor of Physics, University of Oxford (1990-1994)
- 1961-67 Professor of Geophysics and Physics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 1957-61 Lecturer in Physics at King's College, University of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1954-57 Senior Research Fellow, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (National Service)
- 1953-54 Research Associate in Astrophysics at Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- Geophysics
- Geomagnetism
- Meteorology
- Geodesy
- Oceanography
- Planetary physics and geophysical fluid mechanics
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society (of London) (1971, Council 1988-90)
- Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1996)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (1989)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1967)
- Honorary Member of the Deutsches Arbeitskreis Geschichte Geophysik und Kosmische Physik (2001)
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Chartered Physicist
- Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (President 1974-76, Council 1969-72 and 1974-76, Honorary Fellow 1989)
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (President 1983-85, Council 1969-72 and 1983-86)
- (Founding) Member of the European Geophysical Society (now the European Geosciences Union) (President 1982-84, Council 1981-85, Honorary Member 1988)
- Honorary Fellow of Jesus College Oxford (elected 1997) and of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge (elected 2001)
- Honorary DSc degrees awarded by the universities of Leicester (1985), Manchester (UMIST) (1994) and Paris (1995)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990).
- Chree Medal (Institute of Physics, 1975)
- Holweck Medal (Société Française de Physique and Institute of Physics, 1982)
- Gold Medal (Royal Astronomical Society, 1989)
- Bowie Medal(American Geophysical Union, 1997)
- Hughes Medal (Royal Society, 1998)
- Richardson Medal (European Geophysical Society, 1999)
- Symons Gold Medal(Royal Meteorological Society, 2003)
- Symons Lecture (Royal Meteorological Society, 1970)
- Fisher Lecture (Royal Society, Royal Statistical Society, Biometrical Society, 1977)
- Halley Lecture (University of Oxford, 1980); Jeffreys (Royal Astronomical Society, 1981)
- Holweck Lecture (Société Française de Physique, 1982)
- Union Lecture (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 1983)
- Scott Lecture (University of Cambridge, 1984)
- Thompson Lecture(University of Toronto, 1984)
- Lindsay Lecture (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1988)
- Courtauld Lecture (Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1996)
- Schuster Lecture (University of Manchester, 1998)
- Starr Lecture (MIT, 2001)
