The Radiation Laboratory, commonly called the Rad Lab, was a microwave and radar research laboratory located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Primary advocates for the creation of the laboratory were veterans of the World War II-era MIT Radiation Laboratory, including physicist and electrical engineer...
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wartime MIT Radiation Laboratory, the post-war Project Whirlwind and Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's SAGE in the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (redirect from MIT)
American Innovation Policies. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-34340-4. "MIT Radiation Laboratory | MIT Lincoln Laboratory". www.ll.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-15...
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584) was an automatic-tracking microwave radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II. It was one of the most advanced ground-based...
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which had housed the historic MIT Radiation Laboratory, at 32 Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In contrast to the MIT custom of referring to buildings...
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Lawrence H. Johnston (section MIT Radiation Laboratory)
the MIT Radiation Laboratory where he invented ground-controlled approach radar. In 1944, he went to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where...
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developed by Raytheon under the guidance of the MIT Radiation Laboratory and Naval Research Laboratory using the cutting-edge multicavity magnetron technology...
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John G. Trump (category MIT School of Engineering alumni)
role in delivering radar equipment to allied forces through the MIT's Radiation Laboratory, the war's largest civilian science enterprise. In 1940, he joined...
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Capitalism Talcott Parsons, The Structure of Social Action MIT Radiation Laboratory, MIT Radiation Laboratory Series, 28 volumes Richard Pates (2021) What is a...
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Isidor Isaac Rabi (section Molecular Beam Laboratory)
worked on radar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory (RadLab) and on the Manhattan Project. After the war, he served...
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Edwin McMillan (section Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10. During World War II, he worked on microwave radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...
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instrumentation and cosmic rays (Junior Fellow, 1935–1940) and the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1940-1950; Director of the Division on Fire Control and Army Radar...
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MIT Radiation Laboratory Series (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1950; J. L. Lawson and G. E. Uhlenbeck, Threshold Signals, MIT Radiation Laboratory...
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Samuel Jefferson Mason (category MIT School of Engineering alumni)
Antenna Group of MIT Radiation Laboratory as a staff member. Mason went on to earn his S.M. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1947 and 1952...
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Luis Walter Alvarez (category Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel)
the magnetic moment of the neutron. In 1940, Alvarez joined the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he contributed to a number of World War II radar projects...
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was a semi-mobile, S band, early-warning radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II. It was one of the first projects attempted...
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obtained a doctorate in physics in 1938. In 1942, Sherr joined the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he worked to develop new airborne radar systems. In 1944...
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substantial number of the American radar systems originated with the MIT Radiation Laboratory, nicknamed the "Rad Lab". Abdullah – British radar homing system...
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Microwave (redirect from Microwave Radiation)
(the Tizard Mission): 852 significantly shortened the war. The MIT Radiation Laboratory established secretly at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...
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this reaction. During World War II, he worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1949. After the war, Furry continued...
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microwave transmission, done partly at the Bell Laboratories and in association with the MIT Radiation Laboratory, was significant in the development of radar...
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Beatrice Worsley (section Post-graduate at MIT)
completed under the direction of Henry Wallman, a member of the famed MIT Radiation Laboratory. The paper covered almost every computing machine then in existence...
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Jerome Wiesner (category MIT School of Engineering faculty)
the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He worked briefly after the war at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, then returned to MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics...
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receiving security clearance in December 1941, Bethe joined the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he invented the Bethe-hole directional coupler, which is...
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Whirlwind I (redirect from MIT Whirlwind)
I was a Cold War-era vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among the first...
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the MIT Radiation Laboratory in 1940, where he led the development of the H2X radar bombsight. After the war he became a professor of physics at MIT. He...
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Microwave Committee, by this time organized into what would become the MIT Radiation Laboratory, took up development as Project 3. During the initial meetings...
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radar was developed during the later stages of World War II by the MIT Radiation Laboratory with the first units produced by General Electric in mid-1945....
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Arthur R. von Hippel (redirect from Laboratory for Insulation Research)
education centers in this area in the world. Together with the MIT Radiation Laboratory, von Hippel and his collaborators helped to develop radar technology...
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