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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 April 1892
- Died
- 5 December 1973
- Place of birth
- Brechin
- Place of death
- Inverness
- Sex or gender
- male
- Father
- Patrick Watson Watt
- Spouse
- Jane Trefusis Forbes
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, inventor, university teacher
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Elliott Cresson Medal, Hughes Medal, Fellow of the American Physical Society, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Science
- birth name
- Robert Alexander Watson
- educated at
- Brechin High School, University of Dundee
- employer
- University of Dundee, Met Office, Air Ministry
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
- notable work
- radar, Chain Home radar system
- relative
- James Watt
- student of
- William Peddie
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