The Sunday New York Times ran an obit on page 35 for Oswald Villard,
Jr., W6QYT, who until 2001 was an ARRL member. He passed away in a
nursing home.
According to the piece: Dr. Villard, an electronics engineer, parlayed
his youthful interest in radio into advanced research with military and
other uses, including "stealth" technology to stop radar from bouncing back
from aircraft, so planes are nearly invisible to it." As a student at
Stanford he was part of the team that developed the klystron and at Harvard
during WWII at the Radio Research Laboratory he worked on pioneering
studies of radar jamming. He wrote over 60 technical papers and held
six patents.
When he was twelve the family chauffeur gave him a radio put together
from a kit.
His greatest contribution was leading research that vastly expanded the
range of high frequency radar signals by bouncing them off the
ionosphere.
Frank Fallon........
N2FF