Career
He worked as an electrical engineer at Siemens Brothers in London, and at Siemens & Halske in Berlin. During the First World War he became a captain at the War Office’s Signals Experimental Establishment (SEE) at Woolwich, London, developing wireless telegraphy for the British Army. In 1919 he was elected as a Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering at King"s College, Cambridge.
During the Second World War he became part of the team developing radar at the Admiralty Signals Establishment.
Doctor Laurence Turner died on 28 January 1963.
