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Robert Bruce Lindsay

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American physicist

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Bruce Lindsay was an American physicist and physics professor, known for his prolific authorship of physics books in acoustics, and historical and philosophical analyses of physics. Biography R Bruce Lindsay's January 1, 1900, birth date hailed a new century. At the age of 20, he received both a BA and an MS in physics from Brown University. Before receiving his Ph.D. for atomic models of alkali metals from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924, he spent the 1922–23 academic year as a Fellow of The American-Scandinavian Foundation at the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr and Hans Kramers. Lindsay and his wife Rachel translated Kramers’ book, The Atom and the Bohr Theory of its Structure, in 1923, receiving approximately $125, on which they toured Europe. Lindsay went to Yale University in 1923 as instructor in physics, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1927. He returned to Brown in 1930 as associate professor of theoretical physics, and was named Hazard Professor of Physics in 1936. He acted as chairman of the physics department at Brown from 1934 until he became dean of the graduate school in 1954. Lindsay received the ASA Gold Medal in 1962, before retiring as dean of the graduate school in 1966 and from teaching in 1970. He died March 2, 1985, in Newport, Rhode Island.

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