Floyd R. Watson: Difference between revisions

'''Floyd Rowe Watson''' (April 23, 1872, [[Lawrence, Kansas]] – January 18, 1974) was an American experimental physicist, known for his research on [[acoustics]] and the acoustical design of buildings.<ref name=100thbirthdayPT>{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.3070945|title=Floyd R. Watson celebrates 100th birthday |journal=Physics Today |year=1972 |volume=25 |issue=7 |page=67 }}</ref><ref name=obitPhysicsToday>{{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.3128838|title=Obituary. Floyd Rowe Watson |journal=Physics Today |year=1974 |volume=27 |issue=8 |page=69 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=100thbirthdayArmy>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXwmkVdVeroC&pg=RA3-PA35| title=Army scientist's father draws acclaim from many leaders on 100th birthday |journal=Army Research and Development | date=July 1972 | page=35| publisher=Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command, Development and Engineering Directorate }}</ref>

In 1902 he married Estelle Jane Barden. They had two sons.<ref name=AlumniRecord1918/> Their younger son, Robert Barden Watson, was one of the U.S. Army's leading experts on electronics. Their elder son, Norman Allen Watson, was a UCLA physics professor,<ref name=100thbirthdayArmy/> who did research on acoustics.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Watson, Norman A.|author2=Gales, Robert S.|title=Bone‐conductionBone-conduction threshold measurements: Effects of occlusion, enclosures, and masking devices|journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|volume=14|issue=4|year=1943|pages=207–215|url=https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.1916218?journalCode=jas|doi=10.1121/1.1916218|bibcode=1943ASAJ...14..207W }}</ref>

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