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Robert Watson-Watt

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.

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science · Scottish physicist who pioneered radio direction-finding and radar (1892–1973) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · also Robert Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt, Watson-Watt

Born 13 April 1892 · Died 5 December 1973 · Q342591

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Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1962).
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1957).
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2013· 1 entry

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Was one of four inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame

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1973· 3 entries

Dec 5, 1973Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1973-12-05.

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1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

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Watson-Watt died in 1973, aged 81 in Inverness, two years after his third wife.

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1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Aged 81 in Inverness, two years after his third wife

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1966· 1 entry

1966Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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At the age of 74, he married Dame Katherine Trefusis Forbes

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1962).

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1957· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1957Documented record84% confidence

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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1957).

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Watson-Watt reportedly was pulled over for speeding in Canada by a radar gun-toting policeman

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1954· 1 entry

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And then the University of Dundee in 1967)

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1949· 1 entry

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A Watson-Watt Chair of Electrical Engineering was established at University College, Dundee

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1948· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1948Documented record84% confidence

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Won Hughes Medal (1948).

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1945· 1 entry

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Watson-Watt was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Wireless

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1942· 1 entry

1942Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And received the US Medal for Merit in 1946

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1941· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1941Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1941).

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1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Knighted in 1942 and awarded the US Medal for Merit in 1946

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1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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To advise on air defence after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

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1939· 1 entry

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Sir George Lee took over the job of DCD and Watson-Watt became Scientific Advisor on Telecommunications (SAT) to the Ministry of Aircraft Production, travelling to the US in 1941 to advise them on the severe inadequacies

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1935· 1 entry

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Watt was asked to comment on reports of a German death ray based on radio

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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The Air Ministry set up a committee, the CSSAD (Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence), chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to find ways to improve air defence in the UK

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Watt became Superintendent of the Radio Department of NPL in Teddington

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1927· 1 entry

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To form the Radio Research Station with Watson-Watt as director

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1926· 1 entry

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And was the topic of an extensive paper by Watson-Watt and Herd

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1924· 1 entry

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When the War Department gave notice that they wished to reclaim their Aldershot site, he moved to Ditton Park near Slough, Buckinghamshire

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1916· 2 entries

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Watson-Watt wanted a job with the War Office, but nothing obvious was available in communications

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1916Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

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Watson-Watt was married on 20 July 1916 in Hammersmith, London to Margaret Robertson (1886-1988), a teacher from Perth, Scotland.

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1912· 2 entries

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And was offered an assistantship by Professor William Peddie, the Chair of Physics at University College, Dundee from 1907 to 1942

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Jan 1, 1912Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at University of Dundee (1912).

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1892· 1 entry

Apr 13, 1892Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1892-04-13.

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Jun 1948Award

Won Hughes Medal (1948).

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Jun 1941Award

Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1941).

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