George F. Craven

George Frederick Craven was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 18, 1918. He attended Melbourne Technical College, Australia. During World War II he was employed by Radio Corporation, Australia, on military equipment. In 1944 he joined the Department of Civil Aviation and was in charge of their Communications Laboratory until 1949. He then went, to the United Kingdom and worked for E.M.I., Hayes, on VHF problems connected with guided missiles. He left for Canada in 1952 and was employed by Canadian Westinghouse on microwave link problems. Returning to the United Kingdom in 1953, he joined Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Ltd., Harlow, England. During this period he was mainly concerned with microwave research and spent some years on problems connected with long-distance waveguide communication. He was Department Head of the Microwave Techniques Laboratory taking a special interest in microwave filters. He published a number of papers, mostly on microwave topics. Mr. Craven was an associate member of the IREE.