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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Terence James Elkins
- Terence James Elkins (born 8 March 1936) is an Australian-born American physicist.
- In 1960, he participated in an expedition from Mawson Station which conducted the first geological surveys of the Napier Mountains in Antarctica.
- The highest of this group of mountains, Mount Elkins, was subsequently named after him.
- In 1979, he received the Harold Brown Award, the Air Force's highest honour for research and development, for research he conducted that contributed to the development of the AN/FPS-118 over-the-horizon backscatter (OTH-B) air defence radar system.
- This system, consisting of six one-megawatt transmitters and their associated horizontal linear phased array antennas, is currently the largest radar system in the world.
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