Appleton Lecture

Year

Speaker

Title of lecture

Media

1999

Dr J H Richter
SPAWAR Systems Center, USA

Surfing the Troposphere

Flyer (PDF)

1998

Professor M Lockwood
 

How Faraday’s Law Controls Appleton’s Ionsphere

1997

Professor T B Jones
 

Recent Advances in Radar Studies of the Polar Ionosphere

1996

Dr J Aarons
 

Trans-Ionospheric Radio Propagation - a Personal Path

1995

Professor H Rishbeth
 

Reflections in Appleton's Mirror - a Century of Ionospheric Science

1994

Professor D J Goodman
 

Personal Communications

1993

Professor V Ashkenazi
 

Surveying to Millimetres by Satellites

1992

Nicholas J Doran
 

Solitons - the Natural Optical Bits

1991

R J Byrne
 

Broadcasting in the Microwave and Millimetric Bands

1990

B Anderson
 

The Cuckoo in the Nest: Very Long Baseline Interferometry

1989

J R Norbury
 

Radio Propagation in Bad Weather

1988

Professor A D Olver
 

Millimetre Wave Systems - Past, Present and Future

1987

Dr P Daly
 

Satellite Navigation Systems Developed by the Superpowers

1986

Professor M S Longair
 

The Electrical Engineer and Universe

1985

Professor W A Gambling
 

Optical Electronics?

1984

Professor P A Matthews
 

Communications on the Move

1983

Professor A P Anderson BSc(Eng) PhD MIEE
University of Sheffield

Seeing with Long Wavelength Eyes

1982

Professor Z Kopal
University of Manchester

Space Exploration of Major Planets

1981

Professor J T Houghton FRS
Director, Appleton Laboratory

Remote Sounding of Atmosphere and Ocean for Climate Research

1980

Dr P A Watson BSc MSc CEng MIEE
University of Bradford

Telecommunications Via Satellite

Flyer (PDF)

1979

Professor E D R Shearman
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham

Radar Oceanography

Flyer (PDF)

1978

D H Roberts
Managing Director, Plessey Microsystems Division

Solid State Devices and the Age of Indolence

Flyer (PDF)

1977

Jim Redmond Ceng FIEE
Director of Engineering, British Broadcasting Corporation

The Nature of Broadcasting

Flyer (PDF)

1976

Professor R L F Boyd CBE BSc(Eng) PhD FRS
Director of the Mullard Space and Science Laboratory, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University College of London

Ionospheres of Dead Stars and Living Galaxies

Flyer (PDF)

1974

Dr John V Evans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

High Power Radar Studies of the Ionosphere

Paper (PDF)Flyer (PDF)

1974

Dr J A Saxton CBE PhD DSc CEng FIEE
Appleton Laboratory, Science Research Council

Radio Probing of the Atmosphere

Flyer (PDF)

1972

Professor H Elliott MSc PhD
Professor of Physics, Imperial College London

High Energy Particles in Space

Flyer (PDF)

1971

Professor F G Smith FRS
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester

The Pulsars

Script (PDF) 

1970

G Millington MA BSc
Consultant, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications

The Ionosphere and Radio Engineering

Flyer (PDF)

1970

Dr E Eastwood CBE PhD MSc
Director of Research of the General Electrical and English Company's Ltd

Radio Meteorology

Flyer (PDF)

1969

Professor W G Beynon CBE PhD DSc
Department of Physics, University College of Wales

International Collaboration in Radio Science

1967

Sir Harry Melville KCB DSc LLD FRS
Chairman of the Council, Scientific Research Council

The Position of Fundamental Scientific Research in the United Kingdom

Script (PDF)Flyer (PDF)

1966

Professor Sir Martin Ryle FRS
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

The Cambridge One-Mile Radio Telescope

Flyer (PDF) 

1965

J A Ratcliffe CB CBE MA FRS
Director, Radio & Space Research Station & VP, The IEE

Appleton's Contribution to Radio Science

Flyer (PDF)