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Eric Eastwood (engineer)

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109:. Here he concentrated on extending the Laboratory's activities in communications, radar and applied physics. In 1954 he was promoted to Director of Research of the Marconi Company, and became then in 1962 Research Director of the English Electric Group. 96:
by his former supervisor at Cambridge, C. P. Snow. Initially he worked at the Nelson Research Laboratory working on synchrotron generators high-voltage impulse X ray tubes. After the English Electric Company acquired the
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This article about an engineer, inventor or industrial designer from England is a
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as his supervisor, gaining a PhD in 1935. He taught physics at the
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Eastwood was educated at Oldham High School and then attended
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
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CBE
FRS
radar
World War II
Manchester University
Lawrence Bragg
Spectroscopy
Christ's College, Cambridge
C. P. Snow
Liverpool Collegiate School
Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader
English Electric Company
Marconi Company
Marconi Research Laboratory
Great Baddow
Bernard Price Memorial Lecture
President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Fellow of the Royal Society
Clifford Paterson Lecture
Order of the British Empire
Honorary Doctorate
Heriot-Watt University


Jones, F. E.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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10.1098/rsbm.1983.0007
JSTOR

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