Ernest Gold (meteorologist)

Ernest Gold
Born 24 July 1881
Died 30 January 1976 (aged 94)
Occupation British meteorologist
Mason University College, now the University of Birmingham

Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS[1] (24 July 1881- 30 January 1976) was a British meteorologist.[2][3][4] He was educated at Mason University College (which later became the University of Birmingham)[5] and St John's College, Cambridge.[6]

Gold set up the first operational (military) meteorological service and demonstrated the vital role of meteorologists to the military hierarchy. He was mentioned in dispatches. He was awarded the DSO and OBE and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Gold oversaw not only the creation of an operational weather service but also the development of international aviation services, becoming President of the Commission for Synoptic Weather Information of the International Meteorological Organization (now the World Meteorological Organization). He became Deputy Director of the Meteorological Office.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Sutcliffe, R. C.; Best, A. C. (1977). "Ernest Gold. 24 July 1881 -- 30 January 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 23: 114. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0006. JSTOR 769611.
  2. ↑ "Ernest Gold, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.O., F.R.S. President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1934–1936". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 102 (434): 945–947. 1976. Bibcode:1976QJRMS.102..945.. doi:10.1002/qj.49710243425.
  3. ↑ Anon (2004). "Gold, Ernest (1881–1976), meteorologist". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31155.
  4. ↑ ‘GOLD, Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U154896 (subscription required)
  5. ↑ http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf
  6. ↑ "Gold, Ernest (GLT900E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ↑ http://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/hist08.pdf