Merle Tuve

Merle Anthony Tuve
Merle Anthony Tuve
	Tuve, 1946
Born	June 27, 1901; Canton, South Dakota, U.S.
Died	May 20, 1982 (aged 80); Bethesda, Maryland
Alma mater	University of Minnesota (BS, MS); Johns Hopkins University (PhD);
Awards	Presidential Medal for Merit; Comstock Prize in Physics (1948); Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1955); William Bowie Medal (1963); Howard N. Potts Medal; John Scott Award;
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1942-1946) ; Carnegie Institution for Science (1946-66)

Merle Anthony Tuve (June 27, 1901 – May 20, 1982) was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development's Section T, which was created in August 1940. He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T during the war from 1942 onward. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.

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