J. A. Ratcliffe
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John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FRS was an influential British radio physicist.
John Ashworth Ratcliffe, FRS © National Portrait Gallery, London
Maurice Wilkes
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Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who inve
J. A. Ratcliffe
…Radio physics Institutions University of Cambridge TRE in Dundee Radio Research Station Academic advisors Edward Appleton Doctoral students Basil Briggs Maurice Wilkes Joseph Lade Pawsey Ronald N. Bracewell Henry G. Booker Other notable students Martin Ryle John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FRS (known to intimates as…
Maurice Wilkes in 1980
Maurice Wilkes (right) with the Meccano differential analyser in the Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory, c. 1937. A. F. Devonshire (left) co-authored a number of papers on melting and disorder with the Laboratory's first director, John Lennard-Jones. The winner of the 1937 Mayhew Prize, J. Corner, is operating the input table (centre).
Maurice Wilkes inspecting the mercury delay line of the EDSAC in construction