In August 1989 IAG celebrated its 125th anniversary. To commemorate the event a series of IAG Symposia was held in Edinburgh, Scotland hosted by University of Edinburgh. This General Meeting later was re-named as Scientific Assembly. The first assembly was held in Tokyo (1982) and 1989 Edinburgh Meeting was the second. There were five symposiums held at Edinburgh meeting with theme as follows;
Symp 101 Global and Regional Geodynamics
Symp 102 GPS and other Radio Tracking Systems
Symp 103 Gravity, Gradiometry and Gravimetry
Symp 104 Sea Surface Topography
Symp 105 Earth Rotation
The meeting and symposia was held at Appleton Tower U of Edinburgh. What is so special about Appleton Tower? The Tower was named in posthumous honour of physicist Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965). He was the Principal who oversaw the development from vision into concrete reality of the 1960s Edinburgh University buildings around George Square. Appleton won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.
Appleton Tower (circa 2011)
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