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To: Jane Long

That reminds me. Have been going to share this for some time. UNCLE JOHN that DT is always talking about

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tional radiation therapy.[3] Together with Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators.[3]

Early life

War service Edit

During the war years, Dr. Trump switched from work on hospital X-ray machines, to research into similar technologies with a more direct application to warfare, especially the development of radar. In 1940 he joined the newly formed National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), as technical aide to the Chairman of the Radar Division, and President of MIT, Dr. Karl Compton. [1]. In 1942, he became Secretary of the Microwave Committee, a sub-committee of the NDRC. The head of the Microwave Committee was Alfred Lee Loomis, the millionaire physicist, who decided to create a laboratory, selected a site for it, chose a suitably discreet and ambiguous title for it and even funded it, until the Federal administration was set up. The new institution was the MIT Radiation Laboratory, or the ‘Rad Lab’ to those in the know. The British were also working on radar, which they called RDF, but had started much earlier. Their Tizard Mission to the USA, showed how far ahead they were in some of the technologies, particularly the magnetron, and it was decided to send a US team to Britain to help coordinate the efforts of the two Allies. The unit was known as the “British Branch of the Radiation Laboratory” (BBRL) and operated as a department of Britain’s Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at Malvern, in Worcestershire. From February 1944 to the end of the war in Europe, the Director was John Trump. [2] During this time he also served in the Advisory Specialist Group on Radar, advising USAAF General Carl Spaatz on navigational radar, precision-bombing radar and also defenses against the German radars found in their night-fighters and in their flak units. The systems included: Gee, Oboe, LORAN, H2X, MEW & SCR-584. Trump worked with all the leading British radar experts, including Sir Robert Watson-Watt, A.P. Rowe and Bernard Lovell. At the end of the war Trump also had interviews with Germany’s leading radar technicians. Trump received recognition for his war-work from both the United States and the United Kingdom.


433 posted on 02/07/2016 6:34:49 PM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans!)
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The unit was known as the “British Branch of the Radiation Laboratory” (BBRL) and operated as a department of Britain’s Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at Malvern, in Worcestershire.

One of my uncles worked there...he talked about Watson Watts.

438 posted on 02/07/2016 7:14:53 PM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: hoosiermama

WOW....there are a lot of great genes in that family and yes, IQ is part of that gene pool too.


440 posted on 02/07/2016 7:19:27 PM PST by nopardons
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