- Source: John Dodds (engineer)
John Mathieson Dodds OBE (13 September 1905 – 15 October 1983) was a Scottish electrical engineer. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen, where he won a Dr Ing. in 1933.
Dodds worked in the Research Department of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. in Trafford Park, Manchester. While at Metropolitan-Vickers, Dodds developed high-power thermionic valves. These valves were 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 World War II. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1944 Birthday Honours.
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Further reading
Brown, Jim, Radar - how it all began, ISBN 1-85756-212-7.
Dodds, JM and Ludlow, JH (1946), Journal of the IEE, 93, Part IIIA, pp 1123–1129.
Swords, Sean S (1986), Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, pp 209, 270.
Watson-Watt, Robert (1957), Three Steps to Victory. Photograph of JMD.