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Robert Watson-Watt rides the waves The British physicist who became known as the ‘inventor of radar’. Robert Watson-Watts. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In April 1935, British physicist Robert Watson-Watt was granted a patent for his design of a radio system for detecting aircraft in flight. The system was described as Radio Detection And Ranging, and because of it, Watson-Watt became known as the inventor of RADAR. Of course, the title “inventor of radar” is more of an honorific than a factual description. Indeed, J. A. Ratcliffe’s biographical memoir of Watson-Watt, written for Britain’s Royal Society after his death on 5 December 1973, says that, “When the time came to apportion credit he was meticulous in recording the contributions of the men around him, and in acknowledging his own debt to his scientific predecessors”.

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