# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-turton-randall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:02:01.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-turton-randall"
name: "John Turton Randall"
slug: "john-turton-randall"
description: "Sir John Turton Randall, was an English physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens."
tagline: "British physicist (1905–1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1905-03-23"
deathDate: "1984-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump