Robert M. Page; Early Radar Scientist

Robert M. Page, 88, a pioneer in the development of radar. As a scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 1936, Page built a transmitter that could send a quick series of radio signals and a receiver that could detect the signals as they bounced back from an object. In Britain, Robert Watson-Watt had independently started work on a radar project in 1935. Several Americans, including Page, and several Britons made radar into the target-finding, gun-pointing system that helped Allied forces detect enemy ships and planes in World War II. In 1958, Page was named director of the Naval Research Laboratory. He retired in 1966. In Edina, Minn., on May 15 of arteriosclerosis.