Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS,[1] (12 March 1910 – 6 October 1981) was a British scientist and engineer who helped develop radar technology during World War II.
Eastwood was educated at Oldham High School and then attended Manchester University, studying under Lawrence Bragg.
Following graduation he began research in Spectroscopy at Christ's College, Cambridge, with C. P. Snow as his supervisor, gaining a PhD in 1935.
[2] In 1967 he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture and was elected President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1972.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968[1] and delivered their first Clifford Paterson Lecture in 1976 on the subject of radar.