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Encyclopedia > Arnold Wolfendale

Sir Arnold Wolfendale is a British astronomer. He was Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995.



Preceded by:
Francis Smith		 Astronomer Royal
1991–1995		 Followed by:
Martin Rees



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Department of Physics : Events - Durham University (227 words)
Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS is a British astrophysicist.
Sir Arnold graduated with a BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester in 1948, followed by a PhD in 1953 and DSc in 1970.
Sir Arnold was Fellow of Experimental Physics of the Royal Institution from 1996 to 2002.
Fizikai Szemle 1999/1 - Arnold Wolfendale: Cosmic Rays (3847 words)
The end of the last century saw many studies of the properties of ionizing radiations and the names of the most important practitioners, such as Becquerel, the Curie's and Röntgen are now part of the language of science.
We (Erlykin and Wolfendale) claim to have identified a small "peak" at an abscissa of + 0.6.
The Erlykin and Wolfendale energy spectra from the hypothesised local supernova remnant (SNR) [17].
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