List of Famous people with last name Tuve

Merle Tuve

First Name Merle
Last Name Tuve
Born on June 27, 1901
Died on May 20, 1982 (aged 80)

Merle Anthony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development's Section T, which was created in August of 1940. He was founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the main laboratory of Section T during the war from 1942 onward. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.

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