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61Faraday cage — A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material, or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electrical fields. Faraday cages are named after physicist Michael Faraday, who built one… …
62Hansen, William Webster — ▪ American physicist born May 27, 1909, Fresno, California, U.S. died May 23, 1949, Palo Alto, California American physicist who contributed to the development of radar and is regarded as the founder of microwave technology. After… …
63William Sterling Parsons — William Sterling Parsons …
64Plasma-based weaponry — is any group of weapons designed to use high energy ionized gas or plasma , typically created by superheating lasers or superfrequency devices. There has been notable interest in its development. One plasma prototype weapon exists in Russia which …
65Microwave heat distribution — The microwave heat distribution is a term for the actual distribution (allocation) of the heat release inside the microwave absorptive material irradiated with high intensive microwaves. The pattern of microwave heat distribution depends on many… …
66Seetakt radar — The shipborne Seetakt radar was developed in the 1930s and was used by the German Navy during World War II.In Germany during the late 1920s, Hans Hollmann began working in the field of microwaves, which were to later become the basis of almost… …
67Hull, Albert Wallace — ▪ American physicist born April 19, 1880, Southington, Conn., U.S. died Jan. 22, 1966, Schenectady, N.Y. American physicist who independently discovered the powder method of X ray analysis of crystals, which permits the study of crystalline …
68Clifford Paterson Lecture — The Clifford Paterson Lecture is a prize lecture of the Royal Society given annually on an engineering topic. A £500 gift is given to the lecturer.[1] The lectures, which honour Clifford Copland Paterson (1879 1948), founder director of the GEC… …
69Maiman , Theodore Harold — (1927–) American physicist Maiman, the son of an electrical engineer, was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated in engineering physics from the University of Colorado in 1949. He gained his PhD from Stanford University in 1955, following …
70electromagnetic radiation — Physics. radiation consisting of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x rays, and gamma rays. [1950 55] * * * Energy propagated through free space or through a material medium in the form of… …
