Ralph Benjamin CB FREng FIET FRSA (17 November 1922 – 7 May 2019) was a British scientist and electrical engineer.
He joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service in 1944, beginning his career at the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (ASWE).
During the fifties and sixties he was a leading member of national Advanced Computer Techniques Project and in 1961 he was acting international chairman NATO "Von Karman" studies on "Man and Machine" and "Command and Control".
Original publications during this time resulted in a DSc and he published a textbook on "Modulation, Resolution and Signal processing"[4] that was later unofficially translated into Russian.
Following retirement from the civil service he became Head of Communications Techniques & Networks at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Technical Centre from 1982 to 1987.