Ernest Henry Putley (1922 – 29 November 2009) was a British scientist and prolific author. He is best known for his work on radar, the

Hall Effect The Hall effect is the production of a voltage difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current. It was disco ...

, and infra-red spectroscopy. Putley was born in South London and graduated with a BSc in physics from

Queen Mary College Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and previously Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of ...

in 1942. In August 1942 he started work at the

Telecommunications Research Establishment The Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) was the main United Kingdom research and development organization for radio navigation, radar, infra-red detection for heat seeking missiles, and related work for the Royal Air Force (RAF) d ...

(TRE) in Malvern, which was later known as RSRE, DERA, and more recently Dstl & QinetiQ. After the war he returned briefly to Queen Mary College to complete his PhD. Putley retired from RSRE in 1982 but returned almost immediately as an unpaid volunteer to record the history of the military electronic developments with which he had been involved for so long.

Select bibliography

* * * * * * * * *"Dr E.H. Putley on A.P. Rowe", pp. 31–33 in Latham, Colin & Stobbs, Anne (1999) "Pioneers of Radar", Sutton *Putley, Ernest (2009) "Science comes to Malvern - TRE a Story of Radar 1942-1953", Aspect Design, Malvern ;Lists
OCLC WorldCat
- lists over 100 of Putley's works
Google booksPrivate Papers of Dr E H Putley
Imperial War Museum

References

1922 births 2009 deaths British scientists Alumni of Queen Mary University of London {{UK-scientist-stub