David Robert Bates, Sr.

Background

Sr., David Robert Bates, was born on November 18, 1916 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Son of Walter V. and Mary O. (Shera) Bates.

Education

Student, Royal Belfast Academy Institute. Student, University College, London, 1938—1939. Master of Science, Queen's University, 1938.

Doctor of Science (honorary), Ulster University, 1972. Doctor of Science, National University Ireland, 1975. Doctor of Science, University Dublin, 1979.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Glasgow, 1979. Doctor of Laws, University York, 1983.

Career

With Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, 1939—1942. With, mine design department H.M.S. Vernon, 1941—1945. Lecturer mathematics University College, London, 1945—1950.

Reader physics, 1951. Consultant United States Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, California, 1950. Professor applied mathematics Queen's University, Belfast, 1951—1968.

Professor theoretical physics, 1968—1974. Special research chairman, 1968—1982. Smithsonian regent's fellow Center Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982—1983.

Research associate Harvard University, 1982—1983.

Achievements

• David Robert Bates, Senior has been listed as a noteworthy physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow: Royal Society (hughes medal 1970). Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science (president physics section 1977), Royal Academy Belgium, European Geophysical Society (honorary established Sir David Bates medal 1992), National Academy of Sciences United States (foreign associate), Royal Irish Academy.

Connections

Married Barbara B. Morris, 1956.

Father:

Walter V. Bates

Mother:

Mary O. (Shera) Bates

Spouse:

Barbara B. Morris