David K. Barton

David Knox Barton
Born	1927 Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Citizenship	USA
Fields	radiolocation
Institutions	Signal Corps, RCA, Raytheon, ANRO Engineering, US Air Force Scientifc Advisory Board
Alma mater	Harvard (1949)
Notable awards	RCA's David W. Sarnoff Award (1958), IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal

David Knox Barton (born in 1927 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American radar systems engineer who has made significant contributions to air defense, missile guidance, monopulse radar, low-altitude tracking, air traffic control, and early warning radar. He had authored a well-regarded series of reference books on radar engineering in the late 1970s. David Barton was one of the people behind the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Вспоминая Александра Леманского. Американские специалисты признали превосходство российской ЗРС С-300 над "Пэтриотом" [Alexander Lemansky's memoirs. American specialists acknowledged the superiority of the Russian S-300 SAM over the "Patriot".]" (in Russian). 2008-09-25. http://vpk.name/news/21012_vspominaya_aleksandra_lemanskogo_amerikanskie_specialistyi_priznali_prevoshodstvo_rossiiskoi_zrs_s300_nad_petriotom.html. Retrieved 2009-11-19. 

Further reading

Books

• the 7-volume Radars book series from Artech House, 1974–1978
• David K. Barton, Modern Radar System Analysis, Artech House, 1988, ISBN 089006170X
• David Knox Barton, A. I. Leonov, Sergey A. Leonov, I. A. Morozov, Paul C. Hamilton, Radar Technology Encyclopedia, Artech House, 1997, ISBN 9780890068939
• David K. Barton, Radar System Analysis and Modeling, Artech House, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58053-681-3

External links

• David K. Barton's biography at ieee.org

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Name	Barton, David Knox
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Date of birth	1927
Place of birth	Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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