Desmond King-Hele
Desmond King-Hele (born November 3, 1927 in Seaford , Sussex - † December 25, 2019 ) was a British physicist and geophysicist.
King-Hele studied at Cambridge University (Trinity College). From 1948 to 1988 he was at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough , where he dealt with space research with satellites and surveying the earth's gravitational field and the upper atmosphere from orbital data from satellites. He has also published as a science historian, for example on Erasmus Darwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley . He also published his own poems.
Together with Wolfgang Priester and others, he was a pioneer in the exploration of the density of the upper atmosphere ( thermosphere ) from satellite orbit data in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1971 he received the Eddington Medal . In 1966 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1974 he gave the Bakerian Lecture (A view of earth and air).
Fonts
- Published by: RAF Table of Earth Satellites 1957-1986, Macmillan, 3rd edition 1987
- A Tapestry of Orbits, Cambridge University Press 1992
- Theory of satellite orbits in an atmosphere, London: Butterworths 1964
- Observing Earth Satellites, Macmillan, St. Martin´s Press 1966, Van Nostrand 1983
- Satellites and Scientific Research, London: Routledge and Paul, 2nd edition 1962
- Shelley: His Thought and Work, Macmillan, St. Martin's Press 1960, 3rd edition 1984
- Shelley, the man and the poet, New York 1960
- Erasmus Darwin, Macmillan 1963
- Doctor of Revolution: the life and genius of Erasmus Darwin, Faber and Faber 1977
- Erasmus Darwin and the romantic poets, St. Martin's Press 1986
- Published in: The life of Erasmus Darwin, Cambridge University Press 2003
- Editor: The collected letters of Erasmus Darwin, Cambridge University Press 2007
- Poems and trixies, London, Miter Press 1972
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SURNAME | King-Hele, Desmond |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist, geophysicist and historian of science |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Seaford (East Sussex) |
DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2019 |