Terence James Elkins (born 1936) is an Australian-born American physicist. In 1960, he participated in an expedition from Mawson Station which conducted the first geological surveys of the Napier Mountains in Antarctica. The highest of this group of mountains, Mount Elkins, was subsequently named after him. In 1979, he received the Harold Brown Award, the Air Force's highest honour for research and development, for research he conducted that contributed to the development of the AN/FPS-118 over-the-horizon backscatter (OTH-B) air defence radar system. This system, consisting of six one-megawatt transmitters and their associated horizontal linear phased array antennas, is currently the largest radar system in the world.
Read more about Terence James Elkins: Education, Mawson Station (1960–1961), Emigration To The United States and Early Career, Development of The Over-the-horizon Air Defence Radar System, Later Career, Awards and Recognition, Publications
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