Charles Henry Brian Priestley

Charles Henry Brian (Bill) Priestley, (8 July 1915 – 18 May 1998) was a British meteorologist who spent much of his career at the CSIRO in Australia.

Education Priestley was born in Highgate, London on 8 July 1915. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he graduated with first class honors in Applied Mathematics in 1937 and in Economics a year later.

Career Priestley joined the British Meteorological Office in 1939 and was asked to study turbulent diffusion in the atmospheric boundary layer (the first few hundred meters of the atmosphere above the earth's surface). In 1943 he was transferred to the upper-air unit and helped prepare the D-Day weather forecast. 1956 Awarded David Syme Research Prize from Melbourne University 1967 Awarded Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1976 Officer of the Order of Australia