Ralph Alger Bagnold
Military Person
1896 – 1990
Who was Ralph Alger Bagnold?
Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, 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. Bagnold was also a veteran of World War I. He laid the foundations for the research on sand transport by wind in his influential book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is still a main reference in the field. It has, for instance, been used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars.
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- Born
- Apr 3, 1896
Plymouth - Also known as
- Ralph A. Bagnold
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- Devonport, Devon
- Died
- May 28, 1990
May 28
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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