biography
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Williams, Sir Frederic (Calland)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–77)
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| biography:
| Electrical engineer, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Manchester and Oxford universities, and worked at the Bawdsey Research Station, Manchester (1940–6), where he developed a method of identifying friendly aircraft on radar (IFF - identification, friend or foe), the forerunner of the modern system of aircraft identification on radar. He became professor of electrical engineering there (1946), and is more widely known for his development of the Williams tube, the first successful electrostatic random access memory for the digital computer. This enabled him, together with his collaborator Tom Kilburn, to operate the world's first stored-program computer in June 1948. |
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