Alexander Geddes (meteorologist)

Dr Alexander Ebenezer McLean Geddes OBE MID FRSE LLD (1885-1970) was a Scottish meteorologist and physicist. He was generally known as Sandy Geddes and nicknamed Siccer Sandy (mean Sandy).[1]

Life

He was born in Fordyce, Aberdeenshire on 8 February 1885 and educated at Fordyce Academy. He then attended Aberdeen University graduating MA in 1906. In 1908 he became an Assistant Lecturer at the university teaching Natural Philosophy (Physics). He was given a doctorate (DSc) in 1913.

In the First World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps as a meteorologist[2] at the rank of Lieutenant.[3] He was transferred to the Royal Engineers and served in France and Belgium. He rose to the rank of Captain and was three times Mentioned in Dispatches. He was awarded a military OBE after the war.[4] In 1919 he returned to Aberdeen University as a Lecturer.

In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Archibald Goldie, Sir Ernest Wedderburn, Arthur Crichton Mitchell, and Ralph Allan Sampson.[5]

In 1946 became a Reader. He retired in 1955 in which year the university granted him an honorary doctorate (LLD).

He died on 26 December 1970.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MORAY/2004-12/1103757513
  2. ↑ History of the Meteorological Office, by Malcolm Walker
  3. ↑ http://digital.nls.uk/rolls-of-honour/pageturner.cfm?id=100553660&mode=transcription
  4. ↑ https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/roll-of-honour/4328/
  5. ↑ 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.
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