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Terence James Elkins : ウィキペディア英語版 | Terence James Elkins
Terence James Elkins (born 1936) is an Australian-born American physicist. In 1960, he participated in an expedition from Mawson Station which conducted the first geological surveys of the Napier Mountains in Antarctica. The highest of this group of mountains, Mount Elkins, was subsequently named after him.〔Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of the United States Geological Survey: (Mount Elkins ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕〔Australian Antarctic Gazetteer of the Australian Antarctic Data Centre: (Mount Elkins ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕 In 1979, he received the Harold Brown Award, the Air Force's highest honour for research and development, for research he conducted that contributed to the development of the AN/FPS-118 over-the-horizon backscatter (OTH-B) air defence radar system. This system, consisting of six one-megawatt transmitters and their associated horizontal linear phased array antennas, is currently the largest radar system in the world.〔(GlobalSecurity.org ): (AN/FPS-118 Over-The-Horizon-Backscatter (OTH-B) Radar ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕〔(Federation of American Scientists ): (AN/FPS-118 Over-The-Horizon-Backscatter (OTH-B) Radar ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕 ==Education== Elkins earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from University of Melbourne in 1957. He earned his master's degree in Physics and Astronomy from Boston University in 1967.〔Astronomy Department, Boston University: (Masters Awards ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕 He earned his PhD from the same institution in 1970, publishing a thesis entitled ''Studies of Ionospheric Irregularity Using Radio Astronomical Techniques''.〔Astronomy Department, Boston University: (Doctorate Awards ). Accessed 03-28-2010.〕
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