Gordon Dobson

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Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson (born February 25, 1889 , † March 11, 1976 in Oxford ) was a British physicist and meteorologist .

Life

Dobson was one of the pioneers of stratospheric and ozone research. For this purpose he developed the Dobsonian spectrophotometer in 1924 . He was the first to recognize the seasonal fluctuations in the thickness of the ozone layer during his measurements on the Antarctic station Halley Bay in the years 1956–1959. These were the fluctuations, the marked intensification of which in the course of the 1970s and 1980s was discovered by Robert Watson in 1985 and known as the ozone hole .

The Dobsonian unit is also named after Dobson , a unit of measurement for the thickness of the ozone layer. In 1927 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which in 1942 awarded him the Rumford Medal .

Fonts (selection)

  • GMB Dobson (1973): The laminated structure of the ozone in the atmosphere . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 99 (422): 599-607.

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Individual evidence

  1. GMB Dobson (1968): 40 Years Research on Atmospheric Ozone at Oxford - A History . Applied Optics 7 (3): 387-405.