David Brunt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Brunt

Welsh meteorologist born in Staylittle

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1886

Place of Birth: Staylittle, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1965

Profession: meteorologist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About David Brunt

  • Sir David Brunt, KBE, FRS (17 June 1886 – 5 February 1965) was a Welsh meteorologist.
  • He was Professor of Meteorology at Imperial College, London from 1934 to 1952.
  • He was Vice-President of the Royal Society from 1949 to 1957.
  • The Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica is named after him. He was born in Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the youngest of the nine children of farmworker John Brunt.
  • His father moved the family to the mining district In Monmouthshire to work as a coal miner.
  • David attended the local Abertillery School from 1899 to 1904.
  • In 1904 he secured a scholarship to enter the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, where he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, gaining a first class honours degree in mathematics in 1907.
  • He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge and in 1909 was elected to the Isaac Newton studentship at the National Solar Physics Observatory.After leaving Cambridge he spent a year as a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Birmingham and two years in a similar post at the Monmouthshire Training College, Caerleon.
  • In 1916 he enlisted in the Royal Engineers (meteorological section) and during the war years did important work related to atmospherical conditions at low levels in chemical warfare.
  • He later became meteorologist to the Air Force.
  • After demobilisation he joined the Meteorological Office which in 1921 became the Air Ministry.
  • He continued his personal research and accepted Sir Napier Shaw's invitation to join him as part-time professor of meteorology at the Imperial College, London.
  • After the retirement of Sir Napier Shaw, Brunt became the first full-time professor of meteorology in Britain, holding the chair from 1934 to 1952.
  • Two years later was elected a Fellow of the college.
  • He independently co-discovered the Brunt–Väisälä frequency. Between 1936 and 1939 he contributed to a theoretical understanding of fog dispersal, information used in the development of the FIDO fog dispersal system.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1939 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1944.
  • He went on to serve as their secretary from 1948 to 1957 and as their vice-president from 1949 to 1957.He served as President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1942 to 1944 and received both their Buchan prize and their 1947 Symons Gold Medal.
  • He was also president of the Physical Society from 1945 to 1947. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1949 and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1959.

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