Each Christmas Albert and I exchanged a celebratory photograph and here is his from Christmas 2021. His message with it was an invite to meet up the next time we were in France. Sadly, that will now never happen. He and his photographs will be very much missed each Christmas by me, and he himself will be very much missed by all of us in the wider geophysics community.
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I will always remember Arnold for his very genuine kindness and patience during my years at Bradford as an undergraduate (1976-80). I recall well that he made geophysics seem fresh and exciting – even the maths! He was always willing to listen to our moans about coursework as well, and somehow forever managed to smooth things out. Arnold’s enthusiasm for research encouraged me to journey into the world of remote sensing and to a semi academic career, and for all this I owe him my deepest gratitude.
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I am very saddened to announce that Arnold Aspinall has died aged 87.
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I recall my first interview with him when I arrived to the department of archaeological sciences office in 1987. He had assumed my arrival would be another day. Immediately after we met, he rushed to arrange my stay for the day and whole staying term.
Continue readingFrom Artefacts to Anomalies: Papers inspired by the contribution of Arnold Aspinall
The papers presented at that day conference in 2006 are available on the ISAP web site. There are many images of Arnold amongst the geophysics data plots.
Below are three of the photographs that were collected then.
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The University of Bradford has published a page highlighting the contributions of Arnold Aspinall.
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Express my deep feeling of grief for passing of Arnold Aspinall!
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It was with deep sorrow that I learned of the death of Prof. Arnold Aspinall. Prof. A. Aspinall was one of pioneers of archaeological geophysics in the world. I must note that a first paper in English that I have read in the former Soviet Union on archaeological prospection was just paper of Prof. Aspinall about the resistivity method application in archaeology.
From my personal communications – he was a top level specialist and nice man…
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In 1992 Arnold was awarded an Honorary DSc by the University of Sheffield.
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When I joined Bradford in 1990, Arnold had just handed over as Head of Department to Mark Pollard, having seen the Department through some difficult years. He was a wonderful colleague for a new lecturer to have: positive, supportive and good-humoured. Advice was given when asked for, but without interfering, and a cheerful chat with Arnold really could brighten up a busy day. More than that, he was a link with the pioneering days of archaeological science, and a reminder of how much our crazy discipline has achieved in a couple of academic generations. A good man, fondly recalled.
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