James Sayers (physicist)

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James Sayers was born in 1912 on a farm in Corkey, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. As a teenager, he built a water wheel powering a generator to provide electricity to the farm. As a physicist, he worked with John Randall and Harry Boot on the development of the cavity magnetron[1]. Later in WWII he worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.

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