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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000031b.htm person Bailey Victor Albert FAA AACR2 18 December 1895 7 December 1964 Place of Birth Alexandria, Egypt Place of Death Geneva, Switzerland Physicist Victor Bailey was employed as a demonstrator in Electrical Laboratory Oxford and occasional lecturer, Queen's College. In 1924 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney. Bailey was subsequently promoted to Professor of Experimental Physics 1936-1952 and Research Professor 1953-1960. His principal research interests were in the conduction of electricity in gases and the drift and diffusion of electrons, With D. F. Martyn he published an influential analysis of the Luxembourg effect whereby passing radio signals were modified by an intervening powerful source. With A. J. Nicholson developed ideas on the balance of interacting populations of host and parasitic species. 1919 1919 Education - Bachelor of Arts in Physics (BA), Queen's College, Oxford, UK 1923 1923 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), Queen's College, Oxford 1924 1936 Career position - Associate Professor of Physics, University of Sydney 1935 1935 Award - Walter Burfitt Prize and A D Ollé Award, Royal Society of New South Wales 1936 1952 Career position - Research Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Sydney? 1951 1951 Award - T. K. Sidey Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand 1953 1960 Career position - Research Professor of Physics, University of Sydney? 1955 1964 Career position - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1960 1960 Life event - Retired 1961 1961 Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney? Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales (1935 - )

Awarded the Prize 1955

 The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Professor of Experimental Physics 1936 - 1952; Research Professor 1953 - 1960

 Royal Society of New South Wales (1866 - )

Received A D Ollé Award 1955

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Fellow 1955 - 1964

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 Bailey, Victor Albert (1895-1964)

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 'Bailey, Victor Albert', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bailey, Victor Albert Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Australian Academy of Science The Academy's Fellows [including profiles and other relevant links] Canberra Australian Academy of Science 2019 Resource Section: Bailey, Victor Albert Bailey, Victor Albert Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Resource Section: Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32 Bailey, Victor Albert - Ms 32 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Journal Article: Obituary: Professor V.A. Bailey Obituary: Professor V.A. Bailey 1965 Australian Physicist 2 4 66 Journal Article: Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: H.J. Nicholson and V.A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations Hopper, John L. Opportunities and Handicaps of Antipodean Scientists: H.J. Nicholson and V.A. Bailey on the Balance of Animal Populations 1988 Historical Records of Australian Science 7 2 179-188 Book Section: Bailey, Victor Albert (1895-1964), physicist Home, R. W. Bailey, Victor Albert (1895-1964), physicist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1993 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De John Ritchie 90-91 Journal Article: The behaviour of electrons in nitrous oxide Bailey, V. A.; and Rudd, J. B. The behaviour of electrons in nitrous oxide 1932 Philosophical Magazine 14 [Ser.7] 1033-1046 Journal Article: Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988 Crompton, R. W. Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-1988 1991 Historical Records of Australian Science 8 4 249-264 Victor Albert Bailey - Records University of Sydney, Archives Victor Albert Bailey - Records P 66 1921 - 1965 Research 'ideas' notebooks 1921-28; manuscripts and related records 1922, 1935-63 includes work on auroras, electric charge of stars, and the theory of numbers; publications 1923-57; lecture notes for 'Physics III electricity' and a draft syllabus for course 'Radiophysics III' 1938-47; various obituaries 1965 [17 cm, P 66]. 0.17 m Victor Albert Bailey - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Victor Albert Bailey - Records MS 032 1936 - 1951 Specification for patent in Commonwealth of Australia of a "Means for producing and utilizing certain electrical conditions in the Ionosphere" 1936; typescript drafts of published papers on radio waves 1938-51; radio receiver used by Bailey in 1937 for testing his theory of gyro-interaction in experiments carried out with the British Broadcasting Corporation and European radio stations [5 cm, MS 32]. 0.05 m, 1 box