University of Reading / HQ building / Imperial College / Society’s headquarters / University of Manchester Institute of Science / National Portrait Gallery / University of London / University of California / /
Holiday
Ascension / /
IndustryTerm
restricted site / data processing computer / computer technology / data processing / computerized telecommunications system / satellite observations / much simpler systems / computing / active research / macroscopic systems / geostationary satellite / satellite age / pleasant site / meteorological services / field-site / /
Organization
University of California / Meteorological Office / Trading Fund / Royal Air Force / European government / European Space Agency / Ministry of Defence / EUMETSAT / Acid Rain Research Project / Met Office Stratospheric Sounding Unit / Meteorology Department / University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology / Atomic Energy Authority / Royal Meteorological Society / European Agency / Parliamentary Estimates Committee / Met Office College / Oxford University / United Kingdom’s National Meteorological Service / Met Office / University of London / Imperial College London / MIT / National Meteorological Service / Radar Research Unit / Training School / University of Reading / Imperial College / United Nations / Executive Agency / Public Accounts Committee / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Royal Society / /
Person
Charles Darwin / Robert Fitzroy / Heath / John F. Kennedy / Keith Browning / James Clerk Maxwell / Philip Goldsmith / Companion / Raymond Hide / John Mason / Mason Gold Medal / /
Position
Captain / Prime Minister / Treasurer and Vice President / hydrographer and meteorologist / President / full professor / Rt / Chancellor / Professor of Cloud Physics / Director-General / Secretary of State / professor of cloud physics in the physics department / Professor / lecturer in the post-graduate department / Admiral / Denis Healey MP / head of the UK / first Director / Queen / leading physicist / scientific assistant / lecturer and public speaker / technician / first professor / research professor / physicist / leader / President of the USA / Director / great physicist / /
The Meteorological OfficeReflections by Sir John Mason CB DSc FRS