Robert Watson-Watt
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 52 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 13,1892 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Brechin |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | December 5,1973 |
| Died | Inverness |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Jean Wilkinson |
| Place of burial | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Books | Man's Means to His End |
| Job | Physicist |
| Electrical engineer | |
| Awards | Hughes Medal |
| Elliott Cresson Medal | |
| the Royal Society | |
| Medal for Merit | |
| Parents | Patrick Watson Watt |
| Education | University of Dundee |
| Brechin High School | |
| Nationality | British |
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| ID | 2050280 |
Robert Watson-Watt Life story
Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt KCB FRS FRAeS was a British pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. Watt began his career in radio physics with a job at the Met Office, where he began looking for accurate ways to track thunderstorms using the radio signals given off by lightning.