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Barnes Wallis

Inventor · born September 26, 1887 · died 1979

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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.

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  1. ~58Received the Fellow of the Royal Society1945
  2. ~81Named Knight Bachelor1968
  3. ~88Received the Royal Medal1975

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