Oral history interview with Robert S. Gales, 2000 March 31.

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Oral history interview with Robert S. Gales, 2000 March 31.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83898192

Topics include his childhood and the influence of his mechanic father and religiously idealistic mother; his work in graduate school at UCLA with Norman Watson and Vern Knudsen; other mentors including Sepmeyer, Veneklassen, Cyril Harris, and Isadore Rudnick; his move to San Diego and start of his Naval career; activism in noise control; Fletcher's critical band theory and the training of sonar operators; work in underwater environmental acoustics; his interests in sailing and church work; influence of Alpha Gamma Omega christian fraternity; his transition after World War II to permanent Naval employment; contributions with John Webster and Paul Veneklassen to the development of noise-reducing headsets enabling acoustic communication on noisy carrier decks; his retirement in 1980.

Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 64 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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