Robert Thomas Beyer (January 27, 1920 – August 20, 2008) was an American physicist,[1] best known for his work in acoustics, and for his translations of Russian and German physics books and journals into English.
in Mathematics from Hofstra in 1942, and his doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1945, with a dissertation focused on magnetic amplifiers.
[2] Beyer was hired as an instructor at Brown University in 1945, where Robert Bruce Lindsay quickly persuaded him to join the physical acoustics laboratory.
[3] Beyer translated John von Neumann's Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics from German into English, in 1955, for Princeton University Press.
Beyer was afflicted with severe rheumatic fever as a teenager, which damaged his heart, and later by multiple sclerosis.