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

[J. Forster]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/01davenport.html

-Jhn

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