Second Conference on Atmospheric Ozone, 1936


This group photograph is from the 'Second Ozone Conference' which was held in Oxford in September 1936 (the first was in Paris in 1929). The meeting attracted scientists from all over the world (16 different countries) who were working on or interested in atmospheric ozone. Dr Dobson, who was Reader in Meteorology in the Oxford University Physics Department, had done much of the pioneering work, and was the main organiser of the conference.

29 of the papers presented were published in a supplement to the November 1936 issue the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, which even by today's standards represents very rapid action by the organisers and editor. (The University Library copy is date stamped 5 December showing that the issue was genuinely produced before then.)

A report of the meeting by Dr A. R. Meetham was printed in the Meteorological Magazine for October 1936 (volume 71, pages 202-205).

The next Ozone Conference was held in Brussels in 1951, under the auspices of the newly formed International Ozone Commission. Subsequent meetings were held in Oxford (1952), Rome (1954), Ravensburg (1956), Arosa (1961), Albuquerque (1964), Boulder? (1980), Thessaloniki (1984), L'Aquila (1996), Sapporo (2000). (See also Dobson, Applied Optics, 387-405, vol. 7 no 3, 1968.)

The framed original of the signed group photograph hangs in the Dobson Room, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.

High resolution grey-scale image of just the photograph (JPG, 552 Kbytes)

High resolution image of whole picture (mainly grey but blue title) (JPG, 1.8 Mbytes)

The signatures (JPG, 240 Kbytes)

Annotated photograph, giving the names (JPG, 298 Kbytes)

Annotated photograph, giving the names; full resolution (JPG, 2.6 Mbytes)

List of attendees

Conference Proceedings front cover and contents list (PDF, 94 Kbytes)

Meeting report (PDF, 650 Kbytes)

Short biography of G.M.B. Dobson



Most recent revision: 27th July, 2001