| Description | Correspondence with B V Bowden, including numerous drafts and offprints which Bowden continued to send to Hanbury Brown over three decades.
Bowden and Hanbury Brown first met in Washington in 1943 during a joint British-American mission to develop a universal system to identify radar targets. Both subsequently worked as consultants in Sir Robert Watson Watt & Partners from 1947 and overlapped again when Bowden became Principal of the Manchester College of Science and Technology (later University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)) in 1953. Hanbury Brown had joined the radio astronomy group of the University of Manchester in 1949. |