Title :
Luis Alvarez: Pioneer Award winner, 1963
Author_Institution :
ITT Federal Lab., Nutley, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The career of Luis Walter Alvarez is sketched, focusing on one of three important radar developments for which he was responsible, namely, the ground-controlled approach. The process of implementing the concept is described.<>
Keywords :
biographies; radar; Luis Walter Alvarez; ground-controlled approach; radar; Airborne radar; Awards committees; Engineering profession; Laboratories; Neutrons; Nuclear weapons; Optical scattering; Physics; Standards development;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
