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Joan Curran
Welsh physicist (1916-1999) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 82
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.
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She also worked on the development of the proximity fuse and the electromagnetic isotope separation process for the atomic bomb.
