Alice Christine Stickland

Alice Christine Stickland (16 March 1906 – 16 April 1987) was an applied mathematician and astrophysics engineer with interests in radar and radiowave propagation. She worked on long-wave propagation, short-wave propagation and the ionosphere. She was also a supported of the International Council for Science’s Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and the Girl Guides’ Association.

Early life Alice Christine Stickland was born in Camberwell, London, on 16 March 1906. Her father was a publisher's clerk. She then went on to study privately while working at the in Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at the Radio Research Station (RRS) in Ditton Park.

Stickland first studied for an MSc in mathematical physics in 1929 and then being awarded a PhD in mathematical physics from University of London in 1943. Her dissertation title was "The Propagation of the Magnetic Field of the Electron Magnetic Wave along the Ground and in the Lower Atmosphere." She was a member of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society.

She officially retired in 1968, but continued to work as General Editor of the Annals of the International Years of the Quiet Sun (1964-65), and with the International Council for Science’s Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). She was heavily involved in the Girl Guides’ Association.

The new Stickland room at the headquarters of the Institute of Physics in London was named in her honour.

Selected publications Ultra-Short Wave Propagation - Comparison Between Theory and Experimental data - Dr. R. L. Smith-Rose, Miss A. C. Stickland