Edward Bullard

Sir Edward Crisp Bullard ( born September 21, 1907 in Norwich, Norfolk, † April 3, 1980 in La Jolla, California ) was a British geophysicist.

Bullard studied physics at Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. He later moved from nuclear physics to geophysics. There he worked primarily in the field of dynamo theory on the origin of the geomagnetic field.

From 1948 to 1955 he headed the National Physical Laboratory.

Bullard received the 1975 William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union. In 1941 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, which honored him in 1953 with the Hughes Medal, and in 1975 with the Royal Medal. In 1953 he was knighted; In 1965, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society awarded him.