Sir John Turton Randall ( born March 23, 1905 - June 16, 1984 ) is an English physicist and biophysicist who is credited with the radical improvement of the magnetron , an important component of the centimeter wavelength radar, is one of the keys to the victory of the Allies in World War II . It is also a key part of microwaves .
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John Randall also led the team at King's College London , which worked on studying the structure of DNA . His deputy, professor Maurice Wilkins, along with James Watson and Francis Crick , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 "for his discoveries in the field of the molecular structure of nucleic acids and their significance for the transfer of information in living material" [1] . Other employees included Rosalind Franklin , Raymond Gosling , Alex Stokes, and Herbert Wilson , who also studied the structure of DNA .
Awards and recognition
- 1945 - Medal and Duddell Prize
- 1946 - Member of the Royal Society of London [2]
- 1946 - Hughes Medal
- 1958 - [3]
- 1962 - Knight Bachelor