Robert Watson-Watt

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (April 13, 1892–December 5, 1973) is considered, by many, the "inventor of radar".

Later years

In July 1938 Watson-Watt left Bawdsey Manor and took up the post of Director of Communications Development (DCD-RAE). In 1939 Sir George Lee took over the job of DCD, and Watson-Watt became Scientific Advisor on Telecommunications (SAT) to the Air Ministry, travelling to the USA in 1941 in order to get radar research started there.

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1938 - 1939 - USA - 1941

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His contributions to the war effort were so overwhelming that he was knighted in 1942. In 1952 he was awarded £50,000 by the British government for his contributions in the development of radar. He spent much of the post-war era in Canada, and later the USA, where he published Three Steps to Victory in 1958.

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1942 - 1952 - Canada - USA

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