JM Dodds
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John Mathieson Dodds was a Scottish electrical engineer. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, MA, BSc, BSc(Eng.), and at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen, where he won a Dr Ing., in 1933.
He worked in the Research Dept of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. in Trafford Park, Manchester, developing high-power thermionic valves, used in the transmitter part of equipment for radar stations for defence (Chain Home system), thereby making a significant contribution to Britain's survival in WWII. He was awarded the OBE.
[edit] Further reading
Brown, Jim, Radar - how it all began, ISBN 1-85756-212-7.
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