Archibald Goldie (meteorologist)

He researched the global circulation of air currents at high level and atmospheric turbulence affecting aircraft.

He did much research on vapour trails from aircraft, and published several papers on how to avoid such in a military context.

[2] He was born in Glenisha, Angus, Scotland, the son of Rev Andrew Goldie (1854-1933), minister, and his wife, Isabella Robertson.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925, his proposers including Sir Ernest Wedderburn.

He is buried with his parents and first wife in the Grange Cemetery on the east side of the south-west extension.

Goldie in 1947
Goldie's house at 6 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh
The grave of Archibald H. R. Goldie, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh