Paddy
After three years at the University College of the South West of England, now the University of Exeter, studying Chemistry and Physics and Pure Maths I found that few firms wanted to accept women scientists.
This was in 1950. I applied to the Scientific Civil Service and was appointed to the Admiralty and I analysed the data for the Royal Navy Guided Missile Radar.
In 1960, I was transferred to the Admiralty Research Laboratory at Queen’s Road in Teddington, next to the National Physical Laboratory. I moved from working on radar to sonar and underwater acoustics. They are very different .
Our object was to detect submarines at long distance and we were successful but the weather at sea and the shoals of fish both affected our transmission, which we had to overcome.
