| Description | Includes a memoir by G P Chamberlain on the role of the 'boffins' in combating the night blitz. Also includes correspondence regarding the sudden death of the space plasma physicist P Christiansen.
Wing Commander G P Chamberlain commanded the new Fighter Interception Unit that was set up at Tangmere in 1940 to improve night-fighting. Hanbury Brown contributed to the Unit's mission to forge a closer link between R&D of new equipment and its use in service. The invention of the word 'boffin' has been attributed to Chamberlain with Hanbury Brown as the prototype. |