Reginald Smith-Rose

Reginald Leslie Smith-Rose CBE (2 April 1894 – 19 March 1980) was an English physicist of the National Physical Laboratory who was a world leader in radio direction-finding.

He was educated at Latymer Upper School, London, and went up to Imperial College on a Board of Education royal scholarship in 1912 from where he graduated with a first class honours degree in physics in 1914 and was awarded the governors' prize for physics.

[1] Smith-Rose undertook post-graduate work at Imperial College before joining Siemens Brothers of Woolwich as an assistant engineer in 1915.

[1] He was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom with silver palm in 1947 and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1952.

[2] After retirement, Smith-Rose continued to act on behalf of the NPL, travelling widely on their business.