Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide ( born May 17, 1929 in Doncaster) is a British geophysicist.

Life

Hide acquired in 1950 at Manchester University a bachelor's degree in physics in 1953 at Caius College, University of Cambridge a Ph.D. in geophysics. He then worked as a research assistant at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago ( United States) and as a researcher at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell (United Kingdom). In 1957 he obtained a position as a lecturer in physics at King's College, University of Durham (now Newcastle University). 1958 married Ann Hide License; the couple has three children. 1961 Hide became a professor of geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1967 he moved to the UK Meteorological Office in Bracknell, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - Hide was the founder and director - later went to the University of Oxford, at the Hide 1990 was professor of physics. In 1994 he became Professor Emeritus, but took over in 2000, yet the management of a research group at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Work

Hide could make important contributions to many areas of geophysics in its more than 200 scientific publications ( including geomagnetism, meteorology, geodesy and oceanography ), for Planetary Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, in particular for MGD. This allowed his work to provide rotating fluids important insights into flow phenomena in the atmosphere, in the oceans, but also in the interior of planets, where magnetic fields are generated by a self-propelling magnetohydrodynamic dynamo.

Awards (selection)

Hide holds honorary doctorates from the following universities: University of Cambridge (1969 ), University of Leicester (1985 ), University of Manchester ( UMIST, 1994) and University of Paris (1995).