Desmond King-Hele

Desmond King - Hele ( born November 3, 1927 in Seaford, Sussex ) is a British physicist and geophysicist.

King - Hele studied at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College). From 1948 to 1988 he was at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he focused on space research satellites and measure the gravitational field of the Earth and the upper atmosphere from orbital data of satellites. He also published as a historian of science, for example, Erasmus Darwin, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He also published his own poems.

He was with Wolfgang Priester and others a pioneer in exploring 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 held the Bakerian Lecture (A view of earth and air ).

Writings

  • Publisher: RAF Table of Earth Satellites 1957-1986, Macmillan, 3rd edition 1987
  • A Tapestry of Orbits, Cambridge University Press 1992
  • Theory of satellite orbits in at 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
  • Publisher: The life of Erasmus Darwin, Cambridge University Press 2003
  • Publisher: The Collected Letters of Erasmus Darwin, Cambridge University Press 2007
  • Poems and Trixie, London, Mitre Press 1972
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