October 1940
MIT Radiation Laboratory
Helps establish the laboratory that develops wartime microwave radar.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Cambridge Massachusetts in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Helps establish the laboratory that develops wartime microwave radar.
Directs major American radar research at MIT.
MIT Radiation Laboratory radar work becomes a major wartime scientific achievement.
Calculates the leading quantum-electrodynamic correction to the electron magnetic moment with striking agreement to experiment.
Predicts a measurable relativistic delay in planetary radar signals.
Leads software work used by the Apollo guidance computer.
Reports independent supernova evidence for accelerated cosmic expansion.
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