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词条 John Dodds (engineer)
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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}}John Mathieson Dodds OBE (13 September 1905[1] – 15 October 1983) was a Scottish electrical engineer. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen, where he won a Dr Ing. in 1933.[2]

Dodds worked in the Research Department 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 World War II.[2] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1944 Birthday Honours.[3]

References

1. ^1939 England and Wales Register
2. ^{{cite journal|title = John Mathieson Dodds|journal = The Newcomen Bulletin|issue = 128-142|page = 22|publisher = Newcomen Society|location = London|year=1984|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KpYoAQAAIAAJ&q=%22John+Mathieson+Dodds%22&dq=%22John+Mathieson+Dodds%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6eGSUMf9NKm80AHBloGoAg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw|accessdate = 1 November 2012}}
3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=36547 |date=2 June 1944 | page= 2668 |endpage= |supp=y}}

Further reading

  • Brown, Jim, Radar - how it all began, {{ISBN|1-85756-212-7}}.
  • Dodds, JM and Ludlow, JH (1946), Journal of the IEE, 93, Part IIIA, pp 1123–1129.
  • Swords, Sean S (1986), Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, pp 209, 270.
  • Watson-Watt, Robert (1957), Three Steps to Victory. Photograph of JMD.
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