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Robert Watson-Watt

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Gender Male
Death51 years ago
Date of birth April 13,1892
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Brechin
United Kingdom
Date of died December 5,1973
DiedInverness
United Kingdom
Spouse Jean Wilkinson
Place of burialScotland, United Kingdom
BooksMan's Means to His End
Job Physicist
Electrical engineer
Awards Hughes Medal
Elliott Cresson Medal
the Royal Society
Medal for Merit
Parents Patrick Watson Watt
Education University of Dundee
Brechin High School
NationalityBritish
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Robert Watson-Watt Life story


Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt KCB FRS FRAeS was a British pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. Watt began his career in radio physics with a job at the Met Office, where he began looking for accurate ways to track thunderstorms using the radio signals given off by lightning.

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