On Jan 7, 9:40*pm, John Szalay john.szalay.at.att.net wrote:
Kerryn Offord wrote in

Didn't the original research for stealth come out of Russia (or at
least was done by Russian mathematicians...

In a-round-about way,

According to Ben Rich's book, the original formulas were from a scottish
physicist James Maxwell,developed a century *ago, later refined by a german
electromagnetics expert Arnold Sommerfeld, then put in a paper *by a
russian radio engineer scientist *named *Pyotr Ufimtsev ,paper was called *
"Method of edge waves in the physical theory of diffraction"
that paper was ignored for 9 years until translated and discovered
by a Skunk Works mathemation named Denys Overholser.
once he understood the theory, *stealth came into being.

*REF:
Skunk Works" *by Ben Rich & Leo Janos.
page 19

Oliver Heaviside's work on transmission line theory clearly showed
what was needed to absorb radar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside