Merle Tuve

Merle Anthony Tuve
Born(1901-06-27)June 27, 1901
Canton, South Dakota, U.S.
DiedMay 20, 1982(1982-05-20) (aged 80)
Bethesda, Maryland
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1942-1946)
Carnegie Institution for Science (1946-66)

Merle Anthony Tuve (June 27, 1901 – May 20, 1982) was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development's Section T, which was created in August 1940.[1] He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T during the war from 1942 onward.[2] He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.[3]

  1. ^ Holmes, Jamie (2020). 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-328-46012-7.
  2. ^ Baxter, James Phinney (1968). Scientists Against Time. M.I.T. Press. p. 230.
  3. ^ Norwegian American Scientist (National Academy of Sciences)