| RefNo | EC/1968/10 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 83 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Eastwood, Eric: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Director of Research of the English Electric Group of Companies. Distinguished for his contributions to radar systems and techniques of vital importance for defence and also for the safe conduct of civil air operations. His military contribution was recognised by award of the C.B.E. (1962); his civil work by the Wakefield Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (1961). During the war, in the R.A.F., he worked on radar defence problems including the radar detection of V 2 missiles and meteors. He then joined the English Electric Company and devoted himself until 1962 to the building up of the Marconi Research Laboratory and to the extension of its research activities in applied physics, radar and telecommunications. He realised early that radar could be a powerful tool in meteorological and ornithological research and his radar studies of bird behaviour have created much interest. He is Chairman of the Radio Research Board and of the Radar Committee of the Ministry of Aviation, is a member of the I.E.E. Council and gave the Faraday Lectures in 1963 on "Electronics in Air Traffic Control". For the past several years he has been directing industrial research on a major scale. A list of papers is attached. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1945 | Eastwood; Sir; Eric (1910 - 1981) | 1910 - 1981 |