Robert Watson-Watt
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 51 years ago |
Date of birth | April 13,1892 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Brechin |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | December 5,1973 |
Died | Inverness |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Jean Wilkinson |
Place of burial | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Books | Man'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 | |
Nationality | British |
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ID | 2050280 |
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.