Eric Eastwood

Eric Eastwood (born March 12, 1910 and died October 6, 1981) was an English engineer and ornithologist.

Eastwood studied at Oldham College, the University of Manchester and Christ's College, Cambridge (where he obtained his doctorate in 1935). In 1937 he married Edith Butterworth with whom he had two children.

During the Second World War Eastwood rose to the rank of Squadron Leader in the RAF while working on radar. He was Research Director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, between 1954-1962. Between 1962-1968 he worked at English Electric, and between 1968-1974 for General Electric-English Electric Companies. From 1974 he served as a consultant for GEC-Marconi Electronics Ltd and for GEC-Hirst Research Center .

Eastwood received numerous honors for his contributions, including the Wakefield Gold Medal (from the Royal Aeronautical Society) in 1961, the Glazebrook Medal (from the Institute of Physics and Physical Society), 1970 and the Sir James Alfred Ewing Medal (from the Institute of Civil Engineers), in 1976. He was appointed CBE in 1962, elected FRS in 1968, and knighted in 1973.

Eastwood's publications include works on spectroscopy, radar, radar meteorology and radar ornithology (the topic on which he published the book 'Radar Ornithology' in 1967)