[1][2] R(obert) Bruce Lindsay's January 1, 1900, birth date hailed the beginning of the last year of the 19th century.
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,[3] receiving approximately $125, on which they toured Europe.
Lindsay received the ASA Gold Medal in 1962,[4] before retiring as dean of the graduate school in 1966 and from teaching in 1970.
His innovative courses, such as “The Role of Science in Civilization” and “Energy and Man”, went beyond mere technical knowledge.