Victor Albert Bailey (18 December 1895 – 7 December 1964) was a British-Australian physicist. The eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana (née Lazarus), an expatriate

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Biography

Bailey

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, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1919. Thereafter, he read for a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.) at Queen's College, under the supervision of John Sealy Edward Townsend, the Wykeham Professor of Physics and Fellow of New College, Oxford. His D.Phil. thesis was entitled "''The Diffusion of Ions in Gases''", and he graduated in 1923. Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in the Electrical Laboratory at Oxford and occasional lecturer, at Queen's College, Oxford. In 1924, he was appointed as associate professor of physics at the

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. Bailey was subsequently promoted to Professor of Experimental Physics (1936–52) and Research Professor (1953–60). Bailey married Joyce Hewitt in 1934. Their older son, John Bailey, also became a physicist.

Awards

* 1951: T. K. Sidey Medal, awarded by the

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for outstanding scientific research. * 1955:

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(FAA) * 1955: Walter Burfitt Prize and A.D. Olle Award received from Royal Society of New South Wales

References

* 'Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994

* 'Bailey, Victor Albert', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995

* J. L. Hopper, "Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: A. J. Nicholson and V. A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations," ''Historical Records of Australian Science'' 7(2), pp. 179 – 188, 1987

External links

Bright Sparcs biographical entry

Bailey's neurotree profile

Bailey archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Victor Albert Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Australian people of Romanian descent 20th-century Australian physicists British people of Romanian descent 20th-century British physicists 1895 births 1964 deaths Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science People from Alexandria Academic staff of the University of Sydney