Autobiography, ca, 1970.

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Autobiography, ca, 1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82724049

Discussion of McKeehan's early years and education, enrollment at the U.S. Naval Academy, graduate work at the University of Minnesota and his switch to physics, interest in early Stokes Law applications, work at Cavendish Laboratory under John Joseph Thomson, and research and conditions at the physics department at University of Minnesota. McKeehan also describes his World War I work, which included ranging immobile guns with sound waves for the National Bureau of Standards, work for the Naval Bureau of Ordnances on Mark 6 Mines and other bombs; degaussing work and trips to London coordinating it; administrative problems and assignment to Joint Target Group; and the formation of the Scientific Advisory Board for Operation Crossroads. He describes his work at Western Electric (Bell Telephone Laboratories); social life; a visit from Ivan Pavlov; the birth of his children; move to Yale University; work at the Sloan Laboratory; Yale faculty; the publication of Yale Science, the First Hundred Years, 1701-1801; Navy service and retirement; and personal data. File also includes 2 versions, one 6 pp (1963) and one 9 pp. (1966), of a review by McKeehan of his professional life.

220 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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