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McKeehan, L. W. (Louis Williams), 1887-1975
Louis McKeehan autobiography, circa 1970.
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.
McKeehan, L. W. (Louis Williams), 1887-1975
McKeehan, Louis Williams, 1887-1975 -- Childhood and youth.
McKeehan, Louis Williams, 1887-1975 -- Family.
McKeehan, Louis Williams, 1887-1975 -- Retirement.
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Bell Telephone Laboratories. -- Employees.
Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, England)
Joint Target Group.
United States. Bureau of Standards
United States. National Bureau of Standards -- Research.
United States Naval Academy -- Students.
United States. Navy
United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance.
University of Minnesota -- Students.
Western Electric Company.
Yale University -- Faculty.
Yale science, the first one hundred years, 1701-1801.
Degaussing -- Research -- Administration -- 20th century.
Military research.
Weapons industry.
Ordance, Naval -- Research.
Physicists -- Biography.
Physicists -- Employment.
Physicists -- Social life and customs.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Range-finding. -- Technological aspects.
Sonar -- Research.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Technology.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Science.
Autobiographies. aat aat
Physicists. lcsh
Stokes' Law. aip
Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946
Pavlov, Ivan.
University of Minnesota. School of Physics and Astronomy
Yale University. Sloans Physics Laboratory.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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