Obituary - Dr. Philip Mayne Woodward, DSc, Applied Mathematician who coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence'

Philip Mayne Woodward, who has died aged 98, was a British mathematician, pioneering radar engineer, and world renowned horologist. Woodward was born on 6 September 1919 and was educated at Blundell's School. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at Wadham College Oxford in 1938. While there, he was appointed the college organist. His undergraduate course was interrupted when he was drafted in 1941 to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), the original home of radar research for the RAF. This was the entry into the world of science for which he craved and led to a career in the Scientific Civil Service that spanned four decades.