Ralph alger bagnold biography of martin

British Army officer

BrigadierRalph Alger Bagnold, OBE,^[1]FRS,^[2] (3 April – 28 May ) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier.

Ralph alger bagnold biography of martin

Bagnold served in the First World War as an engineer in the British Army.

In , 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.^[3] His work has been used by United States' space agency NASA in its study of the terrain of the planet Mars, the Bagnold Dunes on Mars' surface were named after him by the organisation.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

He returned to the forces in the Second World War, in which he founded the behind-the-lines reconnaissance, espionage and raiding unit the "L