David K. Barton

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David Knox Barton (born September 21, 1927 in Greenwich (Connecticut) ) is an American radar engineer.

Barton attended Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in 1949. He was an electronics engineer at Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories from 1949 to 1955 and at RCA Corporation from 1955 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1984 he was a consulting scientist with Raytheon . In 1984 he became Executive Vice President of Anro Engineering in Sedona, Arizona .

He has made significant contributions to air defense systems including the development of the MIM-104 Patriot system, missile guidance, monopulse radar, air traffic control, radar for the detection of low-flying aircraft and early warning radar.

From 1974 to 1978 he wrote a series of seven handbooks on radar technology at Artech House.

In 2002 he received the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal, in 2005 the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award and in 1984 the IEEE Centennial Medal. In 1958 he received the David Sarnoff Award from the RCA Corporation. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE .

He married in 1949 and has eight children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Radar System Analysis, Prentice-Hall 1964
  • Radars, 7 volumes, Artech House 1974 to 1978:
    • Volume 1 Monopulse Radar, 2 The Radar Equation, 3 Pulse Compression, 4 Radar Resolution and Multipath Effects, 5 Radar Clutter, 6 Frequency Agility and Diversity, 7 CW and Doppler Radar
  • with Harold R. Ward: Handbook of radar measurement, Artech House 1984 (new edition of his book from 1969 at Prentice-Hall)
  • Modern Radar System Analysis, Boston: Artech House, 1988, ISBN 0-89006-170-X
  • with AI Leonov, Sergey A. Leonov, IA Morozov, Paul C. Hamilton: Radar Technology Encyclopedia, Artech House, 1997, ISBN 978-0-89006-893-9
  • Radar System Analysis and Modeling, Artech House, 2005
  • with Samuel Sherman: Monopulse principles and techniques, Artech House, 2nd edition 2011

He also edited Russian radar books at Artech House.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Barton, David K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barton, David Knox (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radar engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich (Connecticut)