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
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
J. A. Ratcliffe
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John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FRS was an influential British radio physicist.
Maurice Wilkes
…Equipment Corporation Hewlett-Packard AT & T Olivetti Thesis The reflexion of very long wireless waves from the ionosphere (1939) Doctoral advisor John Ashworth Ratcliffe Doctoral students Michael Kay Peter Wegner David Wheeler Website www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/mvw1 Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November…
John Ashworth Ratcliffe, FRS © National Portrait Gallery, London