Awards & Winners

John Randall

Date of Birth 23-March-1905
Place of Birth Newton-le-Willows
(United Kingdom, Merseyside)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Physicist
Sir John Turton Randall, DSc, FRS, FRSE was a British 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. He also led the King's College London team which worked on the structure of DNA; his deputy, Professor Maurice Wilkins, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, together with James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, for the determination of the structure of DNA. His other staff included Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Alex Stokes and Herbert Wilson, all involved in research on DNA.

Awards by John Randall

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Randall.

1946


Hughes Medal
(For his distinguished researches into fluorescent materials and into the production of high frequency electro-magnetic radiation.)