David K. Barton

David Knox Barton
Born	1927 Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Citizenship	United States
Fields	radiolocation
Institutions	Signal Corps, RCA, Raytheon, ANRO Engineering, US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
Alma mater	Harvard (1949)
Notable awards	RCA's David W. Sarnoff Award (1958), IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal

David Knox Barton (born 1927 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American radar systems engineer who has made significant contributions to air defense, missile guidance, monopulse radar, low-altitude tracking, air traffic control, and early warning radar. He had authored a well-regarded series of reference books on radar engineering in the late 1970s. David Barton was one of the people behind the MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system.