Answer the following question: Facts:   - residence: united kingdom    - known for: invention of chaff    - death date: 10 february 1999      - work institution: cavendish laboratory telecommunications research establishment lawrence berkeley national laboratory    - birth date: 26 february 1916    - name: joan curran    - nationality: british    - death place: glasgow , scotland    - birth place: swansea , wales    - alma mater: university of cambridge -lrb- b.a. , m.a. -rrb-   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of joan curran .
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joan elizabeth curran -lrb- 26 february 1916 -- 10 february 1999 -rrb- was a welsh scientist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the second world war .she invented chaff , a radar countermeasure technique credited with reducing losses among allied bomber crews .she also worked on the development of the proximity fuse and the electromagnetic isotope separation process for the atomic bomb .