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Blue Plaque: Sir John Randall and Harry Boot is shown as a memorial on the public map of Birmingham. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Sir John Randall and Harry Boot were physicists at the University of Birmingham who co-invented the cavity magnetron in 1940, a crucial device that advanced radar technology during World War II. The blue plaque commemorates their contribution to scientific and military innovation.
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