Appendix to the intellectual autobiography of R. Bruce Lindsay.

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Appendix to the intellectual autobiography of R. Bruce Lindsay.

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An autobiographical account of R. Bruce Lindsay's personal life which was appended to his unpublished, intellectual autobiography compiled at the request of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics over a period of years beginning in 1962 through 1983. This account was edited and typewritten from a handwritten manuscript found after his death in 1985 by his daughter, Evelyn Lindsay Roberts. Topics covered include his childhood, family relationships, college years at Brown, study and teaching at M.I.T., courtship and marriage, and the early years of his career at Yale.

104 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Lindsay, Robert Bruce, 1900-

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Lindsay died in 1985. From the description of Intellectual autobiography, circa 1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306609 R. Bruce Lindsay (1900-1985). Physicist (acoustics and education). Professor of physics, Yale University, 1923-1930; chairman, dean, and professor emeritus of physics, Brown University, 1930-1985; editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1957-75. From the description of Appendix to the intellectual autobiograph...