A PIONEER of radar who was in the first wave of scientists to come to Malvern during the Second World War has been awarded a medal by Sheffield University.
Donald Tomlin, aged 94, of Malvern Link, was given the Professor Robert Boucher Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony at the university on Friday. March 2.
Mr Tomlin graduated from Sheffield with a degree in physics in 1940, and joined the government efforts to develop the new technology of radar. This brought him to Malvern 70 years ago, when the experimental establishments moved here in 1942.
In his citation, Miles Stevenson, the university’s director of development and alumni relations, said: “Mr Tomlin has now been associated with the university for more than 75 years.
“He has been an active member of the university’s convocation and the Sheffield University Association, regularly travelling to the city to attend meetings and functions.
“Don has been a great supporter of the university library. He has donated a great deal of his archive papers on radar and also his collection of books on the early teaching of science.”
He said that Mr Tomlin and his late wife Peggy had also been tremendous benefactors, donating to funds allowing gifted students to attend the university.
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