Reminiscences of Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, 1961.

Biographical Note

Radio physicist, meteorologist

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, Scotland; meteorological work, World War I; radio and static studies, direction finders; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; studies of nature of atmospherics; simultaneity of technical developments; memorandum on detection of radiation, 1935; Baudsie Manor, training observers, operation research; political pressures; Air Ministry staff, 1936; airborne radar; recruiting young scientists; United States interest in radar; planned position indicator; target finding, H2S; "Window"; interallied intelligence missions; secondary radar devices; Telecommunications Research Establishment; V-1 and V-2 raids; Royal Commission on awards to inventors; impressions of many political and military figures, notably Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Frederick Lindemann, Henry Tizard, Ernest Rutherford, Arthur Balfour, Richard Haldane

Subjects

• Great Britain--Politics and government--1936-1945.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Meteorologists--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicists--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Radar--Great Britain.
• Radar defense networks.
• Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Communications.

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