Awards & Winners

Robert Hanbury Brown

Date of Birth 31-August-1916
Place of Birth Aruvankadu
(India, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiris district)
Nationality United Kingdom
Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. He was rumoured to have been the original radar scientist who inspired the term boffin during World War II.

Awards by Robert Hanbury Brown

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Hanbury Brown.

1971


Hughes Medal
(For his distinguished work in developing a new form of stellar interfrometer, culminating in his observations of alpha virginis.)