Memorial Tributes Volume 2 (1984) / Chapter Skim
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, but he and Appleton and Radcliffe, at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, first measured it, described it, and taught us how to use it. In 1948 he organized the Ionosphere Research Laboratory, which brought together a large group of experts to study the ionosphere.
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His plans had to be changed, and he returned to the United States in 1939 and became an Assistant Professor of Physics at Wayne State University. Another good opportunity appeared in 1940 when Ted Hunt was putting together what later became the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory, formed to do work on underwater sound for submarine detection.
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The Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory was asked to work on the development of an acoustic homing torpedo, and Art's electronic knowledge was extremely valuable. He devised a biaural listening system and a servomechanism that would allow the torpedo to steer toward an acoustic target.
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National Committee of the International Scientific Radio Union. He served on a number of committees for the National Science Foundation and the National Research Council.
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