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 a 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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