E. A. Alexander

About E.A. Alexander

Eric Alexander was born in South Africa in 1916. He came to England in 1939 prior to the start of the Second World War. On gaining his doctorate at Oxford University in 1941 he joined the Admiralty as an Experimental Officer working in Scotland on Top Secret anti-submarine detection devices (ASDIC) such as those used in X-Craft miniature submarines.

After the war he made his career with the British Admiralty as a sonar scientist in an Experimental Establishment in Dorset, England. In 1966 he was seconded to the diplomatic service of the Foreign Office and appointed Scientific Councellor to the British Embassy in Moscow.