About: Harold Webb

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Harold Donivan Webb (1909 – 1989) was a physicist and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1946, he was one of the members of the US Army Signal Corps Project Diana team at Camp Evans, New Jersey, that was the first to bounce radar signals off of the earth's moon. Dr. Webb's continued research on ionosphere, moon reflection and radio astronomy at the University of Illinois. One of his daughters, Diana, was named after the Project.

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  • Harold Donivan Webb (1909 – 1989) was a physicist and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1946, he was one of the members of the US Army Signal Corps Project Diana team at Camp Evans, New Jersey, that was the first to bounce radar signals off of the earth's moon. Dr. Webb's continued research on ionosphere, moon reflection and radio astronomy at the University of Illinois. One of his daughters, Diana, was named after the Project. The significance of the Diana Project was two-fold. First, it proved that radio waves could penetrate the earth's ionosphere, a feat that had never before been accomplished. Second, it proved that the echo of a radar beam could be received on earth, providing a new way to observe and measure objects in space beyond direct observation through a conventional telescope. Project Diana was the beginning of radioastronomy and the space age. (en)
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  • Harold Donivan Webb (1909 – 1989) was a physicist and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1946, he was one of the members of the US Army Signal Corps Project Diana team at Camp Evans, New Jersey, that was the first to bounce radar signals off of the earth's moon. Dr. Webb's continued research on ionosphere, moon reflection and radio astronomy at the University of Illinois. One of his daughters, Diana, was named after the Project. (en)
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  • Harold Webb (en)
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