Pauline "Polly" Morrow Austin (December 18, 1916 – August 29, 2011) was an American physicist and meteorologist known for her work on weather radar.
[4] Austin began her career in the MIT Radiation Laboratory, where she contributed to the development of Long Range Navigation (LORAN) and radar in World War II.
[1] In 1946, she joined the newly formed MIT Weather Radar Project as the expert on electromagnetic theory.
[5] Her research focused on the measurement of rain by radar and in 1974 her project deployed a shipborne radar to measure rainfall over the tropical ocean as part of the Global Atmospheric Research Program's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE).
They wed in 1941 and remained at MIT, where he became a long-time Professor of Meteorology and an early television weather forecaster.