Sir John William Sutton Pringle FRS (22 July 1912 – 2 November 1982)[1] was a British zoologist.
His research interests were in insect physiology, especially proprioception, flight muscle, and cicada song.
[2] He was appointed Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Cambridge in 1937, and elected as a Fellow of King's College in 1938, a position he held until 1945; during the Second World War he served with the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), where he and Robert Hanbury Brown invented the Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar.
[2] That same year he returned to Cambridge as Lecturer in Zoology and Fellow of Peterhouse.
In 1961 he moved to the Linacre Chair of Zoology at Merton College, Oxford.