Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
1892-1973
Scottish Physicist
Historians of science regard radar, which uses radio waves to detect the positions of aircraft, and the atomic bomb as the two most import...
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973) was a British scientific civil servant who pioneered the development of radar.Robert Watson-Watt, the youngest son of a carpenter, was born on April 18, 18...
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In the early days of World War II, British scientists had just completed what would be the most advanced defense system of their day: a network of radio-signal stations that could detect the approach ...
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Sir
Sir Robert Watson-Watt