- Born
- September 26, 1887
- Died
- October 30, 1979 (aged 92)
- Known as
- engineer, inventor, physicist, military flight engineer
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.
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