Call Number:

002

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

.44 linear feet (1 box)

Language Note:

Text in English.

Preferred Citation:

Papers of Robert S. Shayne, Science History Institute Archives Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106..

Date:

1971-1997 (inclusive)

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

This collection is mostly a gathering of technical reports written by Shayne during his days at Westinghouse, General Electric Light Military Electronics Department and the USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service.

Robert S. Shayne was born on December 8, 1910 in Chicago Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago (BS, 1930; PhD, Organic Chemistry 1933). His fields of expertise were adhesives and surface chemistry but he eventually expanded his interests to include metallurgy corrosion studies and radiation effects. He was a member of both the ACs and the AIChE. Robert Shayne died on May 29, 2008.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1085572~S6

Most of the reports deal with Shayne's career in the Light Military Electronics Department at G.E. There is one report dating from his time in the Reactor Engineering Department at Westinghouse and one from a later stint at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.