LC control no. | n 85162214 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bagnold, Ralph A. (Ralph Alger), 1896-1990 |
Variant(s) | Bagnold, Ralph Alger, 1896- Bagnold, R. A. (Ralph Alger), 1896-1990 باجنولد، رالف ألجر, 1896-1990 |
Associated country | Great Britain |
Birth date | 1896-04-03 |
Death date | 1990-05-28 |
Place of birth | Devonport (England) |
Field of activity | Sand dunes Deserts--Africa, North--Discovery and exploration |
Affiliation | Great Britain. Army. Long Range Desert Group |
Profession or occupation | Military officers Explorers |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | LCCN 70-605540: Bagnold, Ralph Alger, 1896-. An approach to the sediment transport ... 1966 (hdg.: Bagnold, Ralph Alger, 1896- ; usage: R.A. Bagnold) LC data base, 6-27-86 (hdg.: Bagnold, Ralph Alger, 1896- ; usage: Ralph A. Bagnold) His Sand, wind, and war, c1990: CIP t.p. (Ralph A. Bagnold) data sheet (b. 1896; d. 1990) Wikipedia, May 29, 2018 (Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, (3 April 1896 - 28 May 1990) was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II. He is also generally considered to have been a pioneer of desert exploration, an acclaim earned for his activities during the 1930s. These included the first recorded east-west crossing of the Libyan Desert (1932); He laid the foundations for the research on sand transport by wind in his influential book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes; born in Devonport, England |
Associated language | eng |