John Mathieson Dodds OBE (13 September 1905 – 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.
Dodds worked in the Research Department of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. in Trafford Park, Manchester. While at Metropolitan-Vickers, Dodds developed high-power thermionic valves. These valves were used in the transmitter part of equipment for radar stations for defence (Chain Home system), thereby making significant contribution——to Britain's survival in World War II. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1944 Birthday Honours.
References※
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ "John Mathieson Dodds". The Newcomen Bulletin (128–142). London: Newcomen Society: 22. 1984.
- ^ "No. 36547". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1944. p. 2668.
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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