Records relating to Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt 1912-1993

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Records relating to Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt 1912-1993

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Brown, R. Hanbury (Robert Hanbury)

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Physicist. Brown (1916- ) was Professor of Physics (Astronomy), University of Sydney, Australia 1964-1981 and earlier Professor of Radio Astronomy, Manchester University 1949-1964. From the description of Oral history interview, ca. 1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006163 From the description of Records, 1957-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006152 Robert T. Brown earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in botany from the University of Wisconsin ...

Brown, R. Hanbury (Robert Hanbury)

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Physicist. Brown (1916- ) was Professor of Physics (Astronomy), University of Sydney, Australia 1964-1981 and earlier Professor of Radio Astronomy, Manchester University 1949-1964. From the description of Oral history interview, ca. 1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006163 From the description of Records, 1957-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155006152 Robert T. Brown earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in botany from the University of Wisconsin ...

Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973

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Radar pioneer. Watson-Watt was educated in Dundee and St. Andrews. After working in the meteorological office and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, he was from 1933-1936 Superintendent of the Radio Department of the National Physical Laboratory where the use of radar was developed. In 1938, he firstly became Director of Communications Development and then in 1940 scientific adviser on telecommunications to the Air Ministry. In 1942 Watson-Watt was made Vice-controller of comm...