John Mathieson Dodds was a Scottish electrical engineer. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

, MA, BSc, BSc(Eng.), and at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen, where he won a Dr Ing., in 1933.

He worked in the Research Dept of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. in Trafford Park

Trafford Park

Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. Located opposite Salford Quays, on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, it is west-southwest of Manchester city centre, and north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century it was the...

, Manchester

Manchester

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, developing high-power thermionic valves, used in the transmitter part of equipment for radar stations for defence (Chain Home system), thereby making a significant contribution to Britain's survival in WWII. He was awarded the OBE

Order of the British Empire

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Further reading

Brown, Jim, Radar - how it all began, ISBN 1-85756-212-7.