12 Facts About Trevor Wadley

Trevor Wadley attended Durban High School where he excelled in mathematics and science but was uninterested in any sport.

Trevor Wadley went on to do exactly as he had predicted.

Trevor Wadley had the habit of rarely, if ever, taking notes in lectures due to his near-eidetic memory.

Trevor Wadley and other colleagues including Jules Fejer, the Hungarian-born mathematician, were trained on the British RADAR project.

Trevor Wadley was not keen on mathematics but Fejer proved each of Trevor Wadley's concepts mathematically.

In 1948, Trevor Wadley started working on an urgent project for the South African Chamber of Mines to provide a means of radio communication underground for rescue purposes.

Trevor Wadley retired in 1964 and lived on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal until his death from cancer in 1981.

The Trevor Wadley Loop was first used in the Racal RA-17 a 1950s top-of-the-range British military short wave receiver and later in the South African made, commercially available "Barlow-Trevor Wadley XCR-30" radio.

The Trevor Wadley Loop is more widely used today in spectrum analysers, where the noise sidebands of the analyser's tunable oscillator are cancelled due to the spectrum analyser having a sideband noise much lower than the signals being measured.

Colonel Harry A Baumann of the South African Trigonometrical Survey had already come up with the invention and Wadley developed it further.

Trevor Wadley ascribed these to an inaccurate value of the speed of light that had been supplied to him.

Trevor Wadley approached the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington in England and they agreed to do a new measurement of the speed of light.