Elizabeth Audrey Killick was born in London, England to George and Winifred. She attended Streatham and Clapham High School. During the Blitz of WWII, she moved to Cheshire. She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force working as a radar mechanic. After her demobilization in 1947, she worked at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine as a laboratory assistant.
She attended the University of St. Andrews earning a degree in natural philosophy in 1951 and an honorary doctorate in 1998. She joined the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment in 1969, working on radar systems used in Royal Navy warships, as well as the torpedoes used in submarines and aircraft. Her work was highly classified and gave few interviews. She died in 2019 from a heart attack, she was 94.
What you may not know about Elizabeth is that in 1980 she was elected Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1982.
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