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MIT Radiation Laboratory

United States · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1940

Alfred Lee LoomisOctober 1940

Cambridge Massachusetts · Science / Technology

Helps establish the laboratory that develops wartime microwave radar.

Lee Alvin DuBridgeNovember 1940

Cambridge Massachusetts · Science / Technology

Directs major American radar research at MIT.

Names involved

Alfred Lee LoomisLee Alvin DuBridge

Provenance

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