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Nobel laureate, UT physics professor Steven Weinberg dies at 88
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UT Austin says Weinberg was a beloved teacher and researcher, revered not only by the scientists who marveled at his concise and elegant theories but also by science enthusiasts everywhere who read his books and sought him out at public appearances a
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AUSTIN, Texas - The University of Texas at Austin confirmed Saturday that Nobel laureate and longtime professor of physics and astronomy Steven Weinberg has died at 88.
He is survived by his wife, UT Austin law professor Louise Weinberg, and their daughter, Elizabeth.
UT Austin says Weinberg was a beloved teacher and researcher, revered not only by the scientists who marveled at his concise and elegant theories but also by science enthusiasts everywhere who read his books and sought him out at public appearances and lectures. Weinberg held the Jack S. Josey – Welch Foundation Chair in Science at UT Austin
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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