Biographie
He was a physicist and glaciologist with the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 under Captain R.F. Scott.
He studied ice formations and ground radiation in Antarctica.
He was a member of the Southern Party with Captain Scott but 300 miles from the Pole he was sent back.
He was a member of the party that discovered the tent containing the bodies of the doomed Pole-party.
In 1919 he joined the Admiralty Research Department.
In 1929 he was Superintendent at Teddington.
In 1934-36 he was Director of Scientific Research at the Admiralty. During the Second World War he was involved in the early development of Radar systems and developing devices to detect magnetic mines and torpedoes.
He was knighted in 1946.
He was the grandfather of political cartoonist Adrian Raeside.
In 1946 he was appointed as the first Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service.
He was appointed as the Scientific Advisor to the Admiral in the British Joint Service Mission in Washington DC.
In 1951 he was the Director of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Research Institute of Oceanography at La Jolla CA.
In 1955 he joined the Defence Research Board of Canada Pacific Naval Laboratory.
In 1967 he joined the Institute of Earth Sciences in Victoria BC.
Service militaire
He was appointed as a Second Lieutenant RE 1914.
He served in the Royal Engineers 1914-18.
He served in France developing trench wireless systems. (He was demobilized 1919.)
Références
The Canadian Encyclopedia (2nd ed.) Volume IV Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers
