GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, (born April 13, 1892, Brechin, Forfarshire [now Angus], Scotland-died December 5, 1973, Inverness, Inverness-shire), Scottish physicist credited with the development of radar in England.

Detailed explanation-2: -WATSON-WATT, Sir Robert (1892-1973) Sir Robert Watson-Watt was widely known as the ‘father of radar’. In the 1930s he led a team of researchers to develop the aircraft detection technology that would later prove crucial to the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 2 April 1935, Watson-Watt received a patent on a radio device for detecting and locating an aircraft. In mid-May 1935, Wilkins left the Radio Research Station with a small party, including Edward George Bowen, to start further research at Orford Ness, an isolated peninsula on the Suffolk coast of the North Sea.