biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–84)
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| biography:
| British physicist. With his colleague Harry Boot (1917–83), working in the physics department of Birmingham University, he invented the cavity magnetron to generate radio waves of very short wavelength (less than 10 cms), essential for radar, in 1940. Their device is now also used in microwave ovens. |
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