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Arnold Frederic Wilkins OBE (20 February 1907 – 5 August 1985) was a pioneer in developing the use of radar. It was Arnold Wilkins who suggested to his boss, Robert Watson-Watt, that reflected radio waves might be used to detect aircraft, and his idea led to the initial steps in developing ground-to-air radar in the UK.
Arnold Frederic Wilkins was a physicist who was involved with the beginnings of radar and worked with Sir Robert Watson-Watt at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Orfordness [at Orford Ness, Suffolk] and at Bawdsey.
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Arnold Frederic Wilkins OBE (20 February 1907 – 5 August 1985) was a pioneer in developing the use of radar. It was Arnold Wilkins who suggested to his boss, Robert Watson-Watt, that reflected radio waves might be used to detect aircraft, and his idea led to the initial steps in developing ground-to-air radar in the UK.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Arnold Frederic Wilkins and Edward George Bowen 1935-1945. At the outbreak of World War 2 German radar technology was superior to that of the British.
Arnold Frederic Wilkins O.B.E., (20 February 1907 - 5 August 1985), radar pioneer. 1907 Born in Chorlton, Cheshire. Educated at Chester City and County School, Manchester University and St. John's College, Cambridge; graduated in physics.
Wilkins moved to London in the summer of 1938 with Watson Watt to help manage deployment of the Chain Home radar system. Wilkins tells his detailed story about the beginnings of radar in his paper 'The Early Days of Radar in Great Britain' (see under links below).
In 1935, while investigating reports of a supposed German "death ray," Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Frederic Wilkins discovered the possibility of using radio waves to detect aircraft at long distances.
