Kenneth George Budden was a British physicist with a research focus in plasma physics, best known for the publication of several textbooks on radio waves in the ionosphere.
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[3] On the outbreak of war, Budden was released from his upcoming job working for the British Coal Utilisation Research Association[2] and joined the Air Ministry working on the development of radar, where he did the early research on heightfinding that would lead to Height finder radars and improve Ground-controlled interception.
From 1944 Budden was posted to Kandy in Sri Lanka as the Director of Communications Development representative in South East Asia, with an honorary position as Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force.
[2] After the war, Budden joined a coal company called Delanium Ltd. as Director of Research, but left in 1947.
In the 1950s, Budden worked with computer scientist David W. Barron on early computing problems, and also worked with Jenifer Haselgrove on ray tracing in a cold plasma under a magnetic field, which he would expand upon into "complex ray tracing", using imaginary numbers in calculation.
In 1993, Budden received the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal for " for major original contributions to the theory of electromagnetic waves in ionized media with applications to terrestrial and space communications.