Laurence Beddome Turner MIEE (28 January 1886–6 April 1963), was a British

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, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Reader in Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Biography

Born in Charlton, London on 6 April 1886, Laurence Turner was educated at

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and at King's College, Cambridge as a Foundation Scholar. He worked as an

at Siemens Brothers in London, and at Siemens & Halske in Berlin. During the First World War he became a captain at the War Office's Signals Experimental Establishment (SEE) at Woolwich, London, developing wireless telegraphy for the British Army. In 1919 he was elected as a Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering at King's College, Cambridge. During the Second World War he became part of the team developing radar at the

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. Dr Laurence Turner died on 28 January 1963.

Publications

Dr Turner's publications included ''Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony: An Outline for Electrical Engineers and Others'', 1921, and ''Wireless: a treatise on the theory and practice of high-frequency electric signalling'', 1931.Laurence Beddome Turner, ''Wireless: a treatise on the theory and practice of high-frequency electric signalling'', Cambridge University Press, 1931

References

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