Owen F. T. Roberts
Captain Owen Fiennes Temple Roberts FRSE MC (1896–1968) was a British astronomer and meteorologist.
Life
[edit]Owen Roberts was born in Mauritius in 1896, and was the son of Alfred Temple Roberts (1857–1911) and his wife Susan Charlotte Catherine Fiennes-Clinton (d.1936).
In the First World War, Owen served with the Royal Garrison Artillery and rose to the rank of captain, winning the Military Cross.[1]
After the war, he completed his studies at Cambridge University, graduating with a M.A. around 1921. He then began lecturing in Astronomy and Meteorology at Aberdeen University.
In 1928, Owen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Hector Munro Macdonald, James Goodwillie, Ralph Allan Sampson and Arthur Crichton Mitchell.[2]
He died in Leicester in 1968.
Family
[edit]In 1918 he married Ethel S. Fenner in Cheltenham.
Publications
[edit]- The Theoretical Scattering of Smoke in a Turbulent Atmosphere (1923)
- A Note on Measuring the Gradient Wind (1946)
References
[edit]- ^ "The Discovery Service".
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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