[Milsurplus] Lee Davenport, a physicist developer scr 584 dies

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Lee Davenport Dies at 95; Developed Battlefront Radar
By RICHARD  GOLDSTEIN
Published: September 30, 2011 

Lee Davenport, a physicist  who developed a radar device that helped bring 
Allied victories on major World  War II battlefronts in Europe and the 
Pacific, died Friday in Greenwich, Conn.  He was 95. 

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MIT Radiation Laboratory
Lee  Davenport, left, leaning against his invention, an SCR-584, in 1942, 
with Ivan  Getting and Lt. Col. Arthur H. Warner. 

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The cause was cancer, his daughter, Carol  Davenport, said. 
Mr. Davenport was working toward a doctorate in physics at  the University 
of Pittsburgh when he joined the secret Radiation Laboratory at  the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1941. Bringing together  leading 
scientists and financed by the federal government, the Rad Lab, as it  came 
to be known, forged technology for America’s anticipated entry into the  
war. 
He oversaw the day-to-day work and the testing that created the SCR-584  
(for Signal Corps Radio), a microwave radar device with a sophisticated 
scanning  technique to track an enemy plane and a computer to adjust automatically 
the  angle of antiaircraft guns to shoot it down...

read the  whole neat article here.....
 
_http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/01davenport.html?_r=1_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/01davenport.html?_r=1) 
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