The invention of radar meteorology.

Abstract

In these short and over-ambitiously entitled remarks I cannot do full justice to an important episode in the history of meteorology, namely the transition from weather observations incidentally made by radars looking for the enemy to the meteorological radars which have increasingly become the meteorologist's best friend. But I try to recount a few very personal recollections from the forties and fifties which illustrate this development, and to recall some of the remarkable people who made it happen. -from Author