Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS (31 August 1916 – 16 January 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. He was rumoured to have been the original radar scientist who inspired the term boffin during World War II.

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