2005‐07/1
Accession No.: 2005-07
PROCESSING RECORD
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES
Young, Robert William 1908-2002
Robert W. Young Papers, 1920-2002
Physical Description: 49 Record Center Cartons; oversize
Description: The accession consists of the correspondence, memorandum, notes
and other personal papers of physicist Robert William Young, an acoustics expert.
The papers document his work as a physicist at the University of California
Division of War Research (UCDWR) in San Diego 1942-1946, the Marine
Physical Laboratory 1946, and the Naval Electronics Laboratory 1946-1967 where
he worked on problems of underwater sound related to submarine warfare. The
papers include a series of technical reports on wartime navy acoustics research
issued by the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). These include
reports authored by Young and his colleagues in the Listening Section of the
UCDWR. They also include reports issued by Columbia University Division of
War Research (CUDWR), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and other
NDRC sections. This series includes some notes, correspondence and memoranda
concerning the reports, and particularly the UCDWR Listening Section. The
collection includes Young’s wartime photo album, consisting of images taken
between 1941 and 1945 in San Diego. Most of the photographs in the album
document a UCDWR picnic held at the beach below SIO around the summer of
1942. The papers also document his work as an acoustics consultant working on
assessment of environmental sound, music, and building acoustics, including files
on Miramar. The accession includes material documenting his participation in
professional associations and work as a U.S. representative at International
standards meetings related to acoustics.
American physicist born Mansfield, Ohio May 11, 1908. B.S. Ohio University,
1930; Ph.D., physics, University of Washington, 1934.
Acoustics; Underwater acoustics; University of California Division of War Research; MC91
