About Derek Vonberg
Lived 1922 – 2015 (aged 92–93). Derek Vonberg was a British electrical engineer.
Derek Vonberg (1921 –2015) was a British electrical engineer, radio astronomer, and medical research scientist.
Vonberg studied at Imperial College. In 1942, he worked at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Malvern, on the development of RADAR. After the war, he joined the Cavendish Laboratory in 1945, where he worked with Martin Ryle.
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Who was Derek Vonberg?
British scientist and engineer
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Derek Vonberg was born in 1922.
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Derek Vonberg died in 2015.
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Derek Vonberg was an electrical engineer.
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Derek Vonberg was British.
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