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Ralph Bagnold

1896 - 1990

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Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE, FRS, (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist, and soldier. Bagnold served in the First World War as an engineer in the British Army. In 1932, he staged the first recorded East-to-West crossing of the Libyan Desert. His work in the field of Aeolian processes was the basis for the book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, establishing the discipline of aeolian geomorphology, combining field work observations, experiments and physical equations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ralph Bagnold is the 313th most popular engineer (up from 349th in 2019), the 4,301st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,246th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ralph Bagnold ranks 313 out of 389. Before him are John R. Pierce, Mal Evans, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Robert H. Dennard, Peter Schreyer, and K. Eric Drexler. After him are Marina Popovich, Geoffrey de Havilland, Peter Chen, Sidney Darlington, Charles Combes, and Preston Tucker.

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Among people born in 1896, Ralph Bagnold ranks 229. Before him are Hermann Jónasson, Okuro Oikawa, Alberto Vargas, Luiz Vinhaes, Natalie Talmadge, and Esteban Canal. After him are Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Virgil Thomson, Miles Dempsey, Ramón Eguiazábal, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, and Blanche Sweet. Among people deceased in 1990, Ralph Bagnold ranks 249. Before him are Ina Balin, Maurice Cloche, Ian Charleson, Ludwig Lachmann, Wilhelm Baumann, and Jadwiga Wajs. After him are Hector Dyer, Alfredo Pián, Bahriye Üçok, Joe Mercer, Władysław Rubin, and Pasquale Fornara.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ralph Bagnold ranks 4,302 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Ward Baker (1916), Mark Herman (1954), Peter Wilson (1947), Sadie Frost (1965), Charles Lapworth (1842), and Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733). After him are Burt Kwouk (1930), Ray Wilson (1968), Kay Stammers (1914), Ronnie Rooke (1911), Tobias Menzies (1974), and Princess Charlotte of Wales (2015).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Ralph Bagnold ranks 32. Before him are Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Ron Tauranac (1925), Robert W. Paul (1869), and Mal Evans (1935). After him are Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Ove Arup (1895), Jesse Ramsden (1735), Isaac Roberts (1829), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), and R. J. Mitchell (1895).

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