| Description | Offprint of article: Milnes, B & R S Unwin, "A Radio Meteorological Investigation in the South Island of New Zealand", 'Proceedings of the Physical Society', B, vol 63 (1950), pp595-616, which makes references to the radar work of Alexander. |
| Administrative History | Known to the Head of New Zealand’s Radio Development Laboratory (RDL) from her Cambridge days, Elizabeth Alexander was invited to set up and run RDL’s Operations Research Section. Her work covered all of New Zealand’s contribution to World War II radars in the South Pacific.
Most notably, her interpretation that an anomalous signal (picked up by New Zealand Air Force operators on Norfolk Island in March 1945) was caused by the sun became the beginning of solar radio astronomy in Australia. |