Newnham College of University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A.)
Known for
Invention of chaff Work on proximity fuzes
Spouse
Sir Samuel Curran (m. 1940)
Awards
Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Strathclyde
Scientific career
Institutions
Cavendish Laboratory Telecommunications Research Establishment Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the Second World War. She devised a method of releasing chaff, a radar countermeasure technique credited with reducing losses among Allied bomber crews. She also worked on the development of the proximity fuse and the electromagnetic isotope separation process for the atomic bomb.
In later life she became a founding member of the Scottish Society for the Parents of Mentally Handicapped Children.
Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development...
Joan Wadleigh Curran (April 27, 1950 – March 29, 2023) was an American visual artist, painter, and printmaker active in Philadelphia, known primarily for...
president from 1964 to 1991. Samuel Curran died on 15 February 1998 in hospital in Glasgow, aged 85. He was married to Joan Strothers, a scientist involved...
developed the atomic bomb, also studied under Rutherford and Thomson. JoanCurran devised the 'chaff' technique used during World War II to disrupt radar...
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physicists Harrie Massey and Eric Burhop, and British physicists such as JoanCurran and Thomas Allibone. Lawrence had a large cyclotron under construction...
falling through the air might create radar echoes. He, together with JoanCurran, was later instrumental in the deployment of "Window": strips of metal...
Alan Cox (computer programmer), key figure in the development of Linux JoanCurran, scientist Huw Dixon, economist Sir Sam Edwards FRS, physicist Brian...
was knighted. JoanCurran, invented the Window (Chaff) radio countermeasure system. As Samuel Curran's wife, she became Lady JoanCurran. She also went...
founding members included Catherine Shapter, and the physicists JoanCurran and Samuel Curran. They received media attention in 2007 from an advertising campaign...
of Kiddington, political activist (born 1919, Sweden) 10 February – JoanCurran, Welsh physicist (born 1916) 11 February – Brian Parsons, cricketer (Surrey)...
Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate. JoanCurran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer. Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress...
2015. Retrieved May 25, 2010. Curran, Joan Ferris (1986). "Jonas and Betty (Kohn) Wollman and Their Descendants". Curran, Joan Ferris (1996). "Descendants...
Brooklyn Dodgers from 1938 to 1954, in Ash Flat, Arkansas (d. 2008) Born: JoanCurran, Welsh scientist, member of the Manhattan Project, inventor of the chaff...
(November 6, 1987). "Film: 'Hiding Out'". The New York Times. p. C.21. Curran, Peggy (March 17, 2001). "Awash in all things Irish: Three offerings give...
headmistresses: Clarke, Curran, Spencer and Walker. The houses are each represented by four colors: blue (Clarke), red (Curran), green (Spencer), and yellow...
daughter Sarah Curran with Robert Emmet. Gertrude Curran died in 1792 at the age of 12 as the result of a fall from a window. Curran had her buried in...
their relationships with Joyce. In 2014, a biography was written by Paul Curran, entitled Dear Yootha... The Life of Yootha Joyce, to which contributions...
JSTOR 4619330. S2CID 162411534. agathachristie.com: Facts about Miss Marple Curran, John (2011). Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making. New York: Harper. p...
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