Papers, 1936-1993.

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Papers, 1936-1993.

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The material includes correspondence, reports, photographs, patents, publications, university lecture notes and his dissertation. Most of the papers relate to Cole's research with the Underwater Explosives Research Laboratory (UERL) at WHOI. "The Sign Test", unpublished report provides an analysis of data and an outline of statistical methods for explosives research. There is correspondence with WHOI Directors Paul Fye and John Steele relating to Cole's presidency of WHOI's Associate Program, and his involvement with various committees of the WHOI Board of Trustees. The material contains his undergraduate lecture notes and reports and Ph. D. dissertation from Columbia University. There is also a patent by Coles and Richard M. Brown, "Optical Device for Intergrating Functions". The Waterways Experiment Station in Mississippi, for which Coles was a consultant, contains correspondence with Fye and others and related to a wave action study. There is also a journal review of a book, "Physical Principles of Chemistry", which Coles co-authored with Robert H. Cole, a former WHOI scientist.

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