- Balfour Currie
Balfour Watson Currie, C.C. , B.Sc. , M.Sc. 1927 USask, Ph.D. 1930 McGill, LL.D. , D.Sc. , F.R.S.C. (1902 –
January 8 ,1981 ) was a Canadian scientist specializing in the fields ofmeteorology andclimatology .Currie and
Frank Davies worked together atChesterfield Inlet during the SecondInternational Polar Year (1932-1933). [http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/currie/ Online archive of Currie's work on 2nd IPY]He was associated with the
University of Saskatchewan (1930 - 1981), as a Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, founder of the [http://www.usask.ca/physics/isas/page1.htm Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies] (1956), Dean of Graduate Studies (1959) and Vice-president, Research (1967) and as Professor Emeritus.In 1972, he was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada "for his services to science and education especially in the fields of meteorology and climatology". [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1911]In 1977 he received an honorary Doctor of Science (space research) from
York University .Selected Publications
* BW Currie, (1939) "Earth Currents", "Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada", Vol. 33, p.313 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1939JRASC..33..313C&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST scanned PDF]
* WD Penn and BW Currie (1949) "A recording meter for auroral radiations", Canadian Journal of Research, Vol. 27A [http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4431310 biblio. record]
* WG Kendrew, BW Currie (1955) The Climate of Central Canada (book) E. Cloutier, Queen's Printer
*BW Currie, (1955) "Auroral Heights over Central-Western Canada", "Canadian Journal of Physics" 33(12): 773-779 [http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/rp/rp2_abst_f?cjp_p55-092_33_ns_nf_cjp12-55 abstract with link to full text]
External links
* [http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/currie_balfour_watson_1902-81.html Biography in the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan]
* [http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~drm/history/space/w_s01.html "How did we get here from there?" -- account of early atmospheric research at U.Sask. by Peter Forsyth]::
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