Victor Albert Bailey, 18 December 1895, Alexandria, Egypt - 7 December 1964, Geneva, Switzerland was a British-Australian physicist. He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana, née Lazarus, an expatriate Romanian linguist.
He is notable for his work in Ionospheric physics and population dynamics.
Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford Uni...
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Victor Albert Bailey, 18 December 1895, Alexandria, Egypt - 7 December 1964, Geneva, Switzerland was a British-Australian physicist. He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana, née Lazarus, an expatriate Romanian linguist.
He is notable for his work in Ionospheric physics and population dynamics.
Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford University and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College. In 1924, he was appointed as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. Bailey was subsequently promoted to Professor of Experimental Physics 1936-52 and Research Professor 1953-60.
His DPhil thesis was entitled: The Diffusion of Ions in Gases and was supervised by John Sealy Edward Townsend the Wykeham Professor of Physics and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
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