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MUNRO, George Hector

Born Auckland, New Zealand, 23 February 1901. Education, Auckland University College, New Zealand (B.Sc. 1922, M.Sc. 1924, D.Sc.1950). Research officer, Radio Research Board, U.K., 1926-29. Research physicist, C.S.I.R. Radio Research Board, 1929-39. Scientific liaison officer, London, 1940; Australian legation, Washington, D.C., 1941-45. Senior research officer, C.S.I.R. Division Radiophysics 1946; Officer-in-charge, Radio Research Board, 1947-66.
  1. The reflecting layer of the upper atmosphere. Experimental Wireless and the Wireless Engineer, 5 (1928), 242-244.
  2. (With R.H. Barfield) The attenuation of wireless waves over towns. Institution of Electrical Engineers. Journal., 67 (1929), 253-270.
  3. (With L.G.H. Huxley) Shipboard observations with a cathode-ray direction-finder between England and Australia. Institution of Electrical Engineers. Journal., 71 (1932), 488-496.
  4. (With L.G.H. Huxley) Atmospherics in Australia. I. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 68 (1932), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 5, 9-49.
  5. The attenuation of short wireless waves at the surface of the earth. Institution of Electrical Engineers. Journal., 71 (1932), 135-143.
  6. (With A.L. Green) Measurements of attenuation, fading, and interference in south-eastern Australia, at 200 kilocycles per secondied Institution of Engineers, Australia. Journal., 5 (1933), 193-199; Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 87 (1935), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 6, 35-48.
  7. (With H.C. Webster) Nature of atmospherics. Nature, 134 (1934), 880, 897.
  8. (Abstract) (with H.C. Webster) Simultaneous observations of atmospherics at Toowoomba and Canberra. Radio Review of Australia, (February 1935), 22-23.
  9. (With H.C. Webster and A.J. Higgs) Simultaneous observations of atmospherics with cathode ray direction-finders at Toowoomba and Canberra. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 89 (1935), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 8, 9-42.
  10. Wireless direction finding: its application to aircraft. Australasian Engineer, 35 (1935), 16, 35-38.
  11. (With W.J. Wark and A.J. Higgs) Observations of atmospherics with a narrow sector directional recorder at Canberra. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 100 (1936), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 10, 19-30.
  12. (With W.J. Wark and A.J. Higgs) Characteristics and distribution of sources of atmospherics. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 100 (1936), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 10, 31-41.
  13. (With H.C. Webster and A.J. Higgs) Thunderstorms in the Tasman Sea and Coral Sea, March, 1934. Meteorological Magazine, 71 (1936), 59-62.
  14. (With D.F. Martyn and J.H. Piddington) The polarization of radio echoes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 158 (1937), 536-551; Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 110 (1937), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 12, 7-18.
  15. (With D.F. Martyn, A.J. Higgs and S.E. Williams) Ionospheric disturbances, fadeouts and bright hydrogen solar eruptions. Nature, 140 (1937), 603-605.
  16. (Abstract) The reflecting power of the ionospheric regions. Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the Meeting., 23 (Auckland, 1937), 21.
  17. (With D.F. Martyn) The Lorentz polarization term and the Earth's magnetic field in the ionosphere. Nature, 141 (1938), 159-161.
  18. (With D.F. Martyn) The Lorentz 'polarization' correction and the behaviour of radio echoes from the ionosphere at frequencies near the gyro-frequency. Nature, 142 (1938), 1159-1160.
  19. (With H.C. Webster and A.J. Higgs) Fürther studies of directions of atmospherics at Toowoomba and Canberra. Australia. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Bulletin., 127 (1939), Australia. Radio Research Board. Report. 14, 7-21.
  20. (With D.F. Martyn) The Lorentz 'polarization' correction in the ionosphere. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 44 (1939), 1-6.
  21. (With J. Bannon, A.J. Higgs and D.F. Martyn) The association of meteorological changes with variations of ionization in the F**2 region of the ionosphere. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 174 (1940), 298-309.
  22. (With J. Bannon and A.J. Higgs) Magnetic disturbances and region F**2 of the ionosphere. Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, 46 (1941), 61-69.
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