John Randall (Physicist) (Paperback)


High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir John Turton Randall, FRSE, (23 March 1905 - 16 June 1984) was a British physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens. He also led the King's College London team which worked on the structure of DNA; his deputy, Professor Maurice Wilkins, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, together with James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, for the determination of the structure of DNA. His other staff included Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Alex Stokes and Herbert Wilson, all involved in research on DNA.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir John Turton Randall, FRSE, (23 March 1905 - 16 June 1984) was a British physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens. He also led the King's College London team which worked on the structure of DNA; his deputy, Professor Maurice Wilkins, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, together with James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, for the determination of the structure of DNA. His other staff included Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Alex Stokes and Herbert Wilson, all involved in research on DNA.

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Alphascript Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Release date

October 2010

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First published

October 2010

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Dimensions

152 x 229 x 10mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

172

ISBN-13

978-6133746909

Barcode

9786133746909

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LSN

6133746904



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