death_date awards birth_date article_title name
17 october 2004 fellow of the royal society -lrb- 1977 -rrb- 02 november 1922 bas pease
 rendel sebastian pease
bas pease

rendel sebastian `` bas '' pease frs -lrb- 1922 -- 17 october 2004 -rrb- was a british physicist .
pease 's father was the geneticist michael pease , son of edward reynolds pease .
his mother was helen bowen wedgwood , daughter of josiah wedgwood iv .
he was the great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter josiah wedgwood .
during wwii he joined raf bomber command 's operational research section , where he was the expert in charge of the use of a precision navigation system called g-h .
field-based , he advised on operational techniques to use the equipment most effectively .
notably , he helped no. 218 squadron raf in operation glimmer , a diversionary `` attack '' on d-day that distracted and pinned-down german defences while the real attack occurring 200 miles to the west .
his g-h-equipped bombers flew low , in tight circles , dropping window over radar transponder-equipped small ships , in order to deceive the german radars that they were the main invasion fleet .
after the war he was director of the culham laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion -lrb- 1968 -- 1981 -rrb- and head of the british chapter of pugwash -lrb- 1988 -- 2002 -rrb- .
