Harwell
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Harwell may refer to:
- Harwell, Nottinghamshire, England
- Harwell, OxfordshireHarwell, OxfordshireHarwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse west of Didcot. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.-Amenities:...
, England, a village- RAF HarwellRAF HarwellRAF Harwell was a Royal Air Force airfield in former Berkshire, England, near the village of Harwell, later the site of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The site is now in Oxfordshire....
, a World War II RAF airfield, near Harwell village. - Harwell, or Harwell Laboratory, an unofficial name of the Atomic Energy Research EstablishmentAtomic Energy Research EstablishmentThe Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Harwell, Oxfordshire, was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s.-Founding:...
, built on the site of RAF Harwell- The WITCH (computer)WITCH (computer)The Harwell computer, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell , or the Harwell Dekatron Computer, was an early British relay-based computer...
, the 1951 AERE Harwell Dekatron computer later donated to Wolverhampton University - The Harwell CADETHarwell CADETThe Harwell CADET was the first fully transistorised computer in Europe, and may have been the first fully transistorised computer in the world....
, the later 1955 transistor computer from AERE Harwell
- The WITCH (computer)
- Harwell Science and Innovation CampusHarwell Science and Innovation CampusThe Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a science and technology campus near the villages of Harwell and Chilton, Oxfordshire, England. The site is about south of Oxford...
, the current official name of the former RAF Harwell site
- RAF Harwell
People
- Bobby HarwellBobby HarwellBobby Harwell Before serving four years in the Air Force which included a year in a combat hospital group in Korea, Harwell served in the merchant marines. His service there included an adventurous trip to India on a Swedish freighter that caught fire. After his military service he attended and...
(born 1931), American actor - Ernie HarwellErnie HarwellWilliam Earnest "Ernie" Harwell was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television...
(1918 - 2010), American sportscaster - J. A. Harwell, American baseball coach
- Jack Harwell, a sheriff
- Steve HarwellSteve HarwellSteven Scott Harwell is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist for the band Smash Mouth. Greg Camp formed Smash Mouth with Harwell, Kevin Coleman, and Paul De Lisle...
(born 1967), lead vocalist for the pop band Smash Mouth