James Dwyer McGee (17 December 1903 – 28 February 1987) was an Australian scientist and photoelectronics inventor, who worked for many years at EMI in west London, largely developing the first television camera.
In 1928 he won a 1851 Research Fellowship to study in the UK, and he gained a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Clare College, Cambridge in November 1931.
He featured in a BBC1 documentary programme at 9.30 pm on Thursday 3 November 1966 entitled The Discovery of Television.
[5] On 14 February 1957 he gave a lecture to the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society (BKS) entitled Photo-electronic aids to Photography.
[7][8] He lived in west London at 56 Corringway, south of Hanger Lane tube station, east of the North Circular Road.