John Mason#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 335 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
John Mason passed away January 6, 2015.
Positions Held
- 1994 - 1996 Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
- 1965 - 1983 Director-General of the Met Office
- 1948 - 1965 Imperial College
- 1961 Professor of cloud physics
- 1948 Lecturer in meteorology
Fields of Scholarship
- Cloud physics
Honours and Awards
- 1965 Chree Medal by the Institute of Physics
- 1965 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1965 - 1983 Director of the UK Meteorological Office
- 1968 - 1970 President of the Royal Meteorological Society, Honorary member
- 1972 Rumford Medal from the Royal Society
- 1973 Companion of the Order of the Bath
- 1974 MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, with the subject 'Recent Developments in Weather Forecasting'
- 1974 Fellow at Imperial College
- 1976 - 1986 Treasurer for the Royal Society
- 1976 - 1978 President of the Institute of Physics
- 1979 Knighted for his services to meteorology
- 1990 Royal Society's 1990 Rutherford Memorial Lecture
- 1991 Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- Until 1996 Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- 1998 Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Reading
- 2004 Mason Centre for Environmental Flows at the University of Manchester opened
- 2006 Endowment from Mason enabled the Royal Meteorological Society to establish the Mason Gold Medal
- Chairman of the British Physics Olympiad Committee
