biography
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| lived:
| (1912– )
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| biography:
| British physicist. He studied at Belfast and Cambridge, where he became a fellow of St John's (1941–6). A member of the British team associated with the Manhattan atomic bomb project (1943–5), he became professor of electron physics at Birmingham (1946–72). In 1949 he was given a government award for his work on the cavity magnetron valve, which was of great importance in the development of radar. |
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