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John Duckworth FREng (27 December 1916 – 8 January 2015) was a British physicist known for his involvement in the development of Britain's radar defence network during World War II. He also served as the director of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), supervised Britain's efforts to develop nuclear technology, and worked as an industrial consultant in his later life.〔 ==Early life and education== John Clifford Duckworth was born in east London in 1916, the son of an entrepreneur who owned companies that manufactured batteries and radium-based cosmetics.〔 Duckworth attended King's College School, Wimbledon, before going to study physics at Wadham College, Oxford, where he was captain of the college tennis team.〔 After graduating with a first-class honours degree, Duckworth worked as a researcher in nuclear physics at Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory, but was recruited by the Air Ministry Research Establishment (AMRE) upon the outbreak of war in 1939.〔
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