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Albert Hoyt Taylor (born January 1, 1874, Chicago, Illinois, United States—died December 11, 1961, Claremont, California) was an American physicist and radio engineer whose work underlay the development of radar in the United States. Taylor was trained at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and the University of Göttingen, Germany. He taught at Michigan State College in East Lansing and at the universities of Wisconsin at Madison and North Dakota at Grand Forks. He was superintendent of...