Basil Schonland
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South African physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland OMG CBE FRS was noted for his research on lightning, his involvement in the development of radar during World War II and for being the first president of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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- Progressive lightening. VI (1935) (195)
- The Lightning Discharge (1956) (115)
- Progressive lightning IV-The discharge mechanism (1938) (106)
- The Flight of Thunderbolts (1951) (75)
- Progressive Lightning. V. A Comparison of Photographic and Electrical Studies of the Discharge Process (1938) (69)
- The Passage of Cathode Rays through Matter (1923) (66)
- Progressive lightning. VII Directly-correlated photographic and electrical studies of lightning from near thunderstorms (1947) (65)
- The pilot streamer in lightning and the long spark (1953) (60)
- The electrical processes in the intervals between the strokes of a lightning discharge (1951) (55)
- The wave form of atmospherics at night (1940) (43)
- The Interchange of Electricity between Thunderclouds and the Earth (1928) (43)
- The distribution of electricity in thunderclouds (1950) (40)
- The Electric Fields of South African Thunderstorms (1927) (34)
- On a penetrating radiation from thunderclouds (1933) (26)
- Thunder-storms and the penetrating radiation (1930) (22)
- An Electrostatic Fluxmeter of Short Response-time for use in Studies of Transient Field-changes (1950) (21)
- The polarity of thunderclouds (1928) (20)
- Branching of Lightning. (1931) (19)
- XLVIII.The diameter of the lightning channel (1937) (18)
- Development of the Lightning Discharge (1933) (11)
- On the Scattering of $ \beta $-Rays (1922) (11)
- Intensity-measurements of the cosmic radiation in Capetown during 1933, 1934, and 1935 (1937) (10)
- The Scattering of Cathode Rays (1926) (8)
- Wilkins Lecture - Benjamin Franklin: natural philosopher (1956) (7)
- Reflection of Atmospherics from the Ionosphere (1939) (7)
- The work of Benjamin Franklin on thunderstorms and the development of the lightning rod (1952) (7)
- On the Scattering of $ \beta $-Particles (1922) (7)
- THE CERAUNOMETER: A DEVICE TO RECORD THE NUMBER OF LIGHTNING DISCHARGES WITHIN A GIVEN RADIUS (1948) (6)
- Thunderstorms and their electrical effects (1943) (5)
- Upward stepped leaders from the empire state building (1954) (4)
- Age Measurements on a Pegmatitic Mica from the Rhodesian Shield (1955) (4)
- Photography of Lightning in Daytime (1938) (4)
- Anticipatory triggering devices for lightning and static investigations (1941) (4)
- The Atomists (1805-1933) (1968) (3)
- A New Electroscope (1929) (3)
- The Absorption of Cathode Rays in Aluminium (1925) (2)
- Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, First Baron Hankey of the Chart, 1877-1963 (1964) (2)
- Atmospheric and Space Electricity (1966) (2)
- THE RELATION BETWEEN THUNDERSTORMS AND ATMOSPHERICS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (1936) (1)
- The Invisible College (1959) (1)
- Development of the Spark Discharge (1934) (1)
- XXXV. The distribution of the ionizing particles of the penetrating radiation in relation to the magnetic meridian (1933) (1)
- Variation of Cosmic Ray Intensity with Sidereal Time (1936) (1)
- CONVENTION ON THERMONUCLEAR PROCESSES. SESSION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES IN BRITAIN (1959) (0)
- Development of the Lightning Discharge (1934) (0)
- The study of atmospheric electricity in South Africa (1934) (0)
- Prof. Alexander Ogg (1948) (0)
- The Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research (1938) (0)
- The Society's notes (1973) (0)
- The Structure of the atom (0)
- Physics Research at Harwell (1958) (0)
- Address of welcome (1959) (0)
- The lightning discharge : being the Halley lecture delivered on 28 May 1937 (1938) (0)
- Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions (1961) (0)
- Academician I. V. Kurchatov (1960) (0)
- BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: From Dalton to Chadwick: The Atomists (1805–1933) (1969) (0)
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