G. M. B. Dobson

Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson FRS (25 February 1889 - 11 March 1976) was a British physicist and meteorologist who did important work on ozone.

Gordon Dobson, 1930s?

He was educated at Sedbergh School and Caius College, Cambridge where he graduated MA (Cantab and Oxon). He was later awarded DSc (Oxon).

He was appointed University Lecturer in Meteorology, Oxford. By studying meteorites he noticed that the temperature profile of the tropopause was not constant, as had previously been believed (hence the name stratosphere). In fact there was, he showed, a region where the temperature sharply rose. This, he proposed, was happening because UV radiation was heating ozone in what has become known as the ozone layer.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1927, awarded their Rumford Medal in 1932 and delivered their Bakerian lecture in 1945. ^[1]

He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1947 to 1949. ^[2] He was made CBE in 1951.

He built the first Dobson ozone spectrophotometers and studied the results over many years. The Dobson unit, a unit of measurement of vertically integrated atmospheric ozone density, is named after him.

References

1. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27dobson%27%29. Retrieved 20 December 2010. 
2. ^ "Presidents of the Society". Royal Meteorological Society. http://www.rmets.org/about/history/presidents.php. Retrieved 20 December 2010. 

• Dobson G. M. B. (1968). "40 Years Research on Atmospheric Ozone at Oxford - A History". Applied Optics 7 (3): 387–405. Bibcode 1968ApOpt...7..387D. doi:10.1364/AO.7.000387. PMID 20068600. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ozwv/dobson/papers/Applied_Optics_v7_1968.pdf. 
• Dobson G. M. B. (1973). "The laminated structure of the ozone in the atmosphere". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 99 (422): 599–607. doi:10.1256/smsqj.42201. 

External links

• G.M.B.Dobson

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Name	Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne
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Date of birth	25 February 1889
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Date of death	11 March 1976
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