Raymond Hide

Raymond Hide CBE FRS (17 May 1929 – 6 September 2016) was a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and, since 2000, Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.

Hide was educated at Percy Jackson Grammar School, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire and the University of Manchester, where he obtained a first-class degree in Physics in 1950. He then went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was awarded a doctorate in 1953.

After research at the University of Chicago, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire from 1954 to 1957. He was a lecturer in physics at King's College, Newcastle from 1957 to 1961, before becoming Professor of Geophysics and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961 to 1967). He was then Head of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab at the Met Office (1967 to 1990). He was appointed a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1983, holding his fellowship until 1996; he was then appointed an Honorary Fellow in 1997. Between 1984 and 1990, he was the Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, based central London. He was Director of the Robert Hooke Institute and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 1992.

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