Background
HIDE, Raymond was born on May 17, 1929 in Bentley near Doncaster. Son of late Stephen Hide and of Rose Edna Hide (nee Caiilidge, now Mrs T. Leonard).
physicist university professor
HIDE, Raymond was born on May 17, 1929 in Bentley near Doncaster. Son of late Stephen Hide and of Rose Edna Hide (nee Caiilidge, now Mrs T. Leonard).
Bachelor of Science in Physics with honors, Manchester (England) University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics, Cambridge (England) University, 1953; Doctor of Science, Cambridge (England) University, 1969; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Leicester, England, 1985; Doctor of Science (honorary), University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1996; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Paris, 1995.
Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London. 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.
Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator, at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.
Fellow Royal Society London (Hughes medal 1998), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy Europe, Institute of Physics (chartered). Member Royal Meterol. Society (honorary, president 1974-1976, Symons Gold medal 2003), Royal Astronomical Society (president 1983-1985, Gold medal 1989), American Geophysical Union (William Bowie medal 1997), European Geophysical Society (honorary, president 1982-1984, Richardson medal 1999), Pontificial Academy of Sciences.
Married Phyllis Ann Licence, March 29, 1958. Children: Julia Ann, Stephen James, Kathryn Margaret Rosanne.
