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de Witt, John H. Jr.
    

Chief engineer of an American broadcasting station and member of the U. S. Army Signal Corps's Project Diana who, with Stodola, bounced 100 MHz = 2.6 m radar Eric Weisstein's World of Physics echoes off the Moon Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy on January 10, 1946, two weeks before Bay succeeded with much more primitive equipment. The first scientifically useful radar echoes, however, were those made by Frank Kerr and Shain (Lovell, pp. 178-179).

Bay, Kerr (Frank), Shain




References

Lovell, B. Astronomer by Chance. New York: Basic Books, 1990.







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