# Joan Curran

> Joan, Lady Curran was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the Second World War. She devised a method of releasing chaff, a radar countermeasure technique credited with reducing losses among Allied bomber crews. She also worked on the development of the proximity fuse and the electromagnetic isotope separation process for the atomic bomb.

*Welsh physicist (1916-1999)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/joan-curran

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1916-02-26
- **Died:** 1999-02-10
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 49.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 8.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 55.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
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- [Joan Curran](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran)
- [Joan Elizabeth Curran](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Elizabeth_Curran)
- [Joan Curran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran)
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- [Joan Curran](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran)
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- [Joan Curran](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6204983)

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