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    Sir Robert Watson-Watt Biography (1892-1973) : Nationality Scottish Gender Male Occupation Physicist

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    Sir Robert Watson-Watt was a Scottish physicist born in 1892 who made seminal contributions to the development of radar. He first worked using radio waves to monitor thunderstorms and later helped develop radar for navigation while serving as an advisor to the British Air Ministry. Under his leadership, Britain developed an early warning radar system that played a key role in their victory over Germany in the Battle of Britain. After the war, Watson-Watt helped the United States establish their own radar program and radar technology has since been widely adopted for non-military uses.

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    Sir Robert Watson-Watt was a Scottish physicist born in 1892 who made seminal contributions to the development of radar. He first worked using radio waves to monitor thunderstorms and later helped develop radar for navigation while serving as an advisor to the British Air Ministry. Under his leadership, Britain developed an early warning radar system that played a key role in their victory over Germany in the Battle of Britain. After the war, Watson-Watt helped the United States establish their own radar program and radar technology has since been widely adopted for non-military uses.

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    Sir Robert Watson-Watt was a Scottish physicist born in 1892 who made seminal contributions to the development of radar. He first worked using radio waves to monitor thunderstorms and later helped develop radar for navigation while serving as an advisor to the British Air Ministry. Under his leadership, Britain developed an early warning radar system that played a key role in their victory over Germany in the Battle of Britain. After the war, Watson-Watt helped the United States establish their own radar program and radar technology has since been widely adopted for non-military uses.

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    Sir Robert Watson-Watt Biography (1892-

    1973)
    Nationality
    Scottish
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    physicist

    In the early days of World War II, British scientists had just completed whatwould be the most
    advanced defense system of their day: a network of radio-signal stations that could detect the
    approach of Nazi bombers, day or night,in fair or foul weather. This network was given the
    ungainly title "Radio Detection and Ranging" but is most commonly known as radar. Though the
    list of scientists who contributed to its creation is long, the name at the top wouldcertainly be Sir
    Robert Watson-Watt, whose work made the creation of radar possible. Watson-Watt was born on
    April 13, 1892, and as a student in Brechin,Scotland, he developed an interest in radio
    telegraphy; in 1915 he began working for the London Meteorological Office using radio waves
    to monitor thunderstorm activity, an essential task to aid the safe flight of early fragile aircraft.
    He continued to work for the government for much of his life, first bysupervising two radio
    research stations and later by researching the use ofradar for navigation. All this time, Watson-
    Watt knew that radar could eventually be used for echolocation--in fact, he patented this concept
    in 1919, anticipating the future construction of a radar location device.

    In the early 1930s, Watson-Watt was appointed scientific adviser to the Air Ministry and was
    given the task of designing just such a device. Several important discoveries were instrumental to
    the invention of the radar system; forexample, in 1922 the cathode-ray tube, which would be
    used for visualizing the returning radar signal, became available. In 1936 pulsed radar replaced
    continuous-wave emitters; the old system could detect only the presence of an object, while the
    pulsed signal could also pinpoint its location. Finally, in 1939 the practical microwave
    transmitter was constructed, allowing the radar locater to operate through cloud and fog. The
    construction of a radar defenseshield, which was completed in secrecy, passed its first test during
    the Battle of Britain, where the early warning system made possible the Allied victory over the
    Nazi air force. Ironically, German scientists had reportedly alsobeen working on a radar location
    system. However, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Hermann Göring (1893-1946) saw it as useful
    in a defensive situation only; since Germany would never be on the defensive end of an air war,
    they concluded, the development of radar was of low priority. Watson-Watt was invited to the
    United States in 1941 to help Americans develop their own radar system. Since World War II,
    the use of radar for nonmilitary application has become widespread. Watson-Watt was knighted
    in 1942. He died on December 5, 1973.

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