Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974
Oral history interview with Vern Oliver Knudsen, 1966 December 20 to 1969 June 3. Teacher, researcher, and administrator: transcript, 1966-1969.
In-depth interview with Vern Oliver Knudsen covering family background; early education at Brigham Young; work at Bell Labs (Harvey Fletcher) before graduate studies at University of Chicago (A. A. Michelson). Appointment to University of California. Church life vs. university career. Establishment of the Acoustical Society of America; Knudson becomes the 3rd president. Research on acoustics in building, work on ear sensibility, audio amplifier; designs hearing aid with Isaac H. Jones; absorption of sound in gases and air. Consultant to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Early work at University of California, Los Angeles; design of radio broadcasting studios. Work during World War II. Deanship at UCLA, and later chancellorship; relationship with Dijkstra and with Spoone. Later work in architectural acoustics; the academic senate; attitudes and philosophy. Minority problem at the university.
Acoustical Society of America
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Brigham Young University.
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles -- Officials and employees.
University of Chicago -- Students.
Absorption of sound.
Amplifiers, Audio -- Research.
Architectural acoustics
Hearing.
Hearing aids -- Designs and plans.
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Radio stations -- Designs and plans.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Sound recordings lcgft
Sound -- Research. phys-t
Dijkstra, Edsger W.
Fletcher, Harvey, 1884-1981.
Jones, Isaac H.
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974 -- Career in the ministry.
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974 -- Childhood and youth.
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974 -- Family.
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Spoone.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
University of California, Los Angeles Academic Senate.
Mink, James V., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Los Angeles. University Research Library. Department of Special Collections. Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575, USA