Robert Watson-Watt

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engineer inventor person physicist pioneer of radar

Robert Watson-Watt was a Scottish pioneer of radar technology whose work on early warning systems was crucial to Britain’s air defense in World War II.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	engineer → inventor → person → physicist → pioneer of radar →
awardReceived	Companion of the Order of the Bath → Fellow of the Royal Society → Knight Bachelor →
birthDate	1892-04-13 →
birthPlace	Brechin, Angus, Scotland →
burialPlace	Pitlochry, Scotland →
countryOfCitizenship	Scotland → United Kingdom →
deathDate	1973-12-05 →
deathPlace	Inverness, Scotland →
educatedAt	University College, Dundee → University of St Andrews →
employer	British Air Ministry → Met Office → National Physical Laboratory →
familyName	Watson-Watt →
fieldOfWork	atmospheric physics → radar technology → radio engineering →
fullName	Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt →
genreOfWork	autobiography →
givenName	Robert →
hasWork	Three Steps to Victory →
honorificPrefix	Sir →
influenced	development of ground-based radar systems worldwide →
knownFor	Chain Home radar network → contributions to Britain’s air defence in World War II → development of radar → early warning radar systems →
militaryConflict	World War II →
nationality	Scottish →
notableWork	Memorandum on the Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods (1935) →
occupation	civil servant → engineer → physicist →
positionHeld	Director of Communications Development at the British Air Ministry → Superintendent of the Radio Department of the National Physical Laboratory → head of the Radio Research Station at Slough →
residence	Canada → England →
spouse	Jean Wilkinson → Margaret Robertson →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Memorandum on the Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods (1935) → Three Steps to Victory →	author
Three Steps to Victory →	aboutPerson
Memorandum on the Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods (1935) ("Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt") →	authorFullName
Chain Home →	developedBy
Bawdsey Research Station →	employer
Robert Watson-Watt ("Watson-Watt") →	familyName
Robert Watson-Watt ("Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt") →	fullName
Telecommunications Research Establishment ("Sir Robert Watson-Watt") →	notablePerson