'Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson'
FRS (
25 February 1889 -
11 March 1976) was a
British physicist and
meteorologist who did important work on
ozone.
By studying meteorites he noticed that the temperature profile of the
tropopause was not constant, as had previously been believed (hence the name
stratosphere). In fact there was, he showed, a region where the temperature sharply rose. This he proposed was happening because UV radiation was heating ozone in what has become known as the
ozone layer.
References
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40 Years Research on Atmospheric Ozone at Oxford - A History, Dobson(Fake) G. M. B., , , Applied Optics, 1968
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The laminated structure of the ozone in the atmosphere, Dobson G. M. B., , , Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1973
External links
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Biography