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ABSTRACT THE Council of the Physical Society has made the second (1946) award of the Charles Vernon Boys Prize to Robert William Sutton, superintendent scientist at the Admiralty Services

Electronics Research Laboratory, Baldock, Herts, for his work in the development of receiving valves and cathode-ray tubes for radio and radar, notably the velocity-modulated local

oscillators (the Sutton valve) for use on centimetric waves, and the Skiatron tube by means of which a picture can be produced from a radar beam. Sutton's research career began in 1929

at the Imperial College of Science and Technology where he collaborated with Prof. G. I. Finch in a successful study of the induction coil. He afterwards went to Ferranti, Ltd., where he

brought the valve factory into efficient operation, to E. K. Cole, Ltd., and to Scophony, Ltd., where he was primarily interested in television research. Early in 1939 Sutton was appointed a

senior scientific officer at the Admiralty Signal Establishment (School at that time) and given charge of the research section of the valve division ; he became principal scientific officer

in 1944 and superintendent scientist in 1945. The award will be presented to Mr. Sutton at the meeting of the Physical Society on January 10. Access through your institution Buy or

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