Desmond King-Hele

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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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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
personal data
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