Ronald N. Bracewell
| Ronald N. Bracewell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 July 1921 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 12 August 2007 (aged 86) Stanford, California, USA |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields |
Physicist Mathematician Radio astronomer |
| Institutions |
CSIRO University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
University of Sydney University of Cambridge Sydney Boys High School |
| Doctoral advisor | J. A. Ratcliffe |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal (1994) Officer of the Order of Australia (1998) |
Ronald Newbold Bracewell AO (22 July 1921 – 12 August 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University.
Bracewell was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1921, and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1941 with the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics, later receiving the degrees of B.E. (1943), and M.E. (1948) with first class honours, and while working in the Engineering Department became the President of the Oxometrical Society. During World War II he designed and developed microwave radar equipment in the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Sydney under the direction of Joseph L. Pawsey and Edward G. Bowen and from 1946 to 1949 was a research student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, engaged in ionospheric research in the Cavendish Laboratory, where in 1949 he received his Ph.D. degree in physics under J. A. Ratcliffe.
From October 1949 to September 1954 Dr. Bracewell was a Senior Research Officer at the Radiophysics Laboratory of the CSIRO, Sydney, concerned with very long wave propagation and radio astronomy. He then lectured in radio astronomy at the Astronomy Department of the University of California, Berkeley from September 1954 to June 1955 at the invitation of Otto Struve, and at Stanford University during the summer of 1955, and joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford in December 1955.
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