Lindsay, Robert Bruce

Lindsay, Robert Bruce

(1900–85) physicist; born in New Bedford, Mass. He taught at Yale (1923–30) before joining Brown (1930–71). A specialist in acoustics (particularly underwater sound), he was a prodigious writer of textbooks, encyclopedia articles, and historical and philosophical analyses of science.

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