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Dana Kavanagh Bailey (Rhodes 1936)

Botantist. Radio Physicist. Rhodes Scholar, Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Decorated Legion of Merit.

1966 to 1976 - Physicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [in Boulder, Colorado].[4]

1959 - Published, Abnormal ionization in the lower ionsphere associated with cosmic-ray flux enhancements, Proc. IRE 47, 255.

1959 - Published, The effect of multipath distortion on the choic of operating frequencies for high-frequency commuications circuits, IRE Trans. Ant. Prop. AP-7.

1955 - Published, radio transmission at VHF by scattering and other processes in the lower ionsphere. Proc. IRE 43, 1181.

1952, Silver, 1956, Goldmedal, Medal Department Commerce.[2]

1952 - Published, D.K.B, L. V. Berkner [Robertson Panel, Operation High Jump], H.G.Booker, G.F. Mongomery, E. M. Purcell, and W.W.Salisbury, A new kind of radio propagation a very high frequencies observed over long distances, Phys,. Rev. 86, 141.

1951 - Recipient Arthur S. Flemming government award Washington Junior Chamber of Commerce.[2]

Since 1950 - Assistant to Chief, Division 14, Narional Bureau of Standards.[3]

1948 to 1955 - Physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (aka NIST).[3] (Secretary of Commerce William. A. Harriman (S&B 1913), Charles W. Sawyer (Freemason) and Sinclair Weeks (Freemason) by Harry S. Truman (Freemason) and Dwight D. Eisenhower)

1948 to 1950 - Advisor U.S. delegation to Provisional Frequency Board of the International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland, representing National Bureau of Standards.[3]

1946 to 1948 - Project Engineer in charge of Communications Section, project Rand, Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica.[3]

WW2 - 1943 to 1945, Washington, 1945, Manila, 1945 to 1946, Tokyo - Charge Radio Propagation Section, Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington.[3]

WW2 - 1941 to 1943 - Charge Radio Propagation Section Ionosphere Bureau in England.[3]

WW2 - 1941 to 1946 - U.S. Army Signal Corps.[3]

1940 to 1941 - U.S. Antarctic.[4]

1936 - Rhodes Scholar, Queen’s College, University of Oxford.[1]

Born 22 Nov 1916.

[1] - Rhodes Database

[2] - Prabook.com - Dana Kavanagh Bailey (Rhodes 1936)

[3] - Hearings, Volume 3 By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations

[4] - D.K. Bailey Collection - University of Colorado Boulder

[5] - Ionospheric Radio Propagation by Davies, Kenneth