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Robert Watson-Watt

1892 - 1973

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Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) 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 waves given off by lightning. This led to the 1920s development of a system later known as high-frequency direction finding (HFDF or "huff-duff"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Watson-Watt has received more than 585,299 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2019). Robert Watson-Watt is the 220th most popular inventor (up from 248th in 2019), the 1,962nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,305th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Watson-Watt ranks 220 out of 354. Before him are Gaston Glock, Émile Baudot, François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Henrich Focke. After him are Thonmi Sambhota, Frederick Scott Archer, Raymond Damadian, Laurens Hammond, Marcian Hoff, and Ruth Handler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Robert Watson-Watt ranks 131. Before him are James Forrestal, Liu Bocheng, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, John Alcock, Yi Kwang-su, and Charles Nungesser. After him are Sayed Darwish, Alberto Bayo, Joseph Szigeti, Bessie Coleman, Maximilian Fretter-Pico, and Peljidiin Genden. Among people deceased in 1973, Robert Watson-Watt ranks 106. Before him are Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Walter Krüger, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Gabriel Voisin, Lorenzo Fernández, and Vilhelm Moberg. After him are Mirra Alfassa, Laurens Hammond, Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, and Joseph Szigeti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Watson-Watt ranks 1,962 out of 7,765. Before him are Ken Tyrrell (1924), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), Willehad (735), Hugh Bonneville (1963), David Tennant (1971), and John Byron (1723). After him are Bill Bruford (1949), Henry Allingham (1896), Philippa Foot (1920), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), and Erling Braut Håland (2000).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Robert Watson-Watt ranks 34. Before him are Matthew Boulton (1728), Sandford Fleming (1827), William Murdoch (1754), John Kemp Starley (1854), Oliver Lodge (1851), and Henry Maudslay (1771). After him are Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Elihu Thomson (1853), James Dyson (1947), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Alexander Parkes (1813), and Samuel Morland (1625).

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