SCIENTIST’S VISIT
lonosphere Physicist A British ionosphere physicist, Dr. H. Rishbeth, has arrived in Christchurch at the invitation of the State Services Commission to spend six weeks with the Geophysical Observatory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Dr. Rishbeth, a graduate of Cambridge University, has come here from the United States, where he was for two years with the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado. Previously he was with the Radio Research Station of the British D.S.I.R. in Slough, Buckinghamshire, and will return there on leaving New Zealand. The main purpose of Dr. Rishbeth’s visit to Christchurch is to consult Messrs G. A. M. King and C. H. Cummack of the Geophyscial Observatory on ionosphere problems, particularly in regard to the F-region which is the most important part of the ionosphere in respect to radio communications.
At Boulder, Dr. Rishbeth’s main work was on the data on the topside of the F-region transmitted by the Canadian satellite Alouette.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30633, 26 December 1964, Page 1
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