Guide to the David E. Yount collection, 1862 - 2000
Abstract:
David E. Yount was a researcher on bubble formation theory and decompression sickness; professor of physics, chair of Department of Physics and Astronomy, and administrator at the University of Hawaii; and a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). Collection contains correspondence, reports, committee materials, text of speeches and lectures, presentation notes, manuscript materials, research files, and grant files. Major subjects include diving, acoustics, decompression, decompression sickness, high-energy physics, and diving physiology.
- Contact Information:
- Duke University Medical Center
Archives and Memorabilia
DUMC 3702
Durham, North Carolina
27710 USA
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Email: dumc.archives@mc.duke.edu
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Duke University Medical Center Archives
- Creator
- Yount, David (David E.)
- Title
- David E. Yount collection, 1862 - 2000
- Extent
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- 16 boxes,
- Approximately 18,500 items,
- 23 linear feet
- Call Number
- UHMS0005
- Location
- Archives Stacks: LSC
Administrative Information
- Access Restrictions
- This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
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- Copyright Notice
- Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], David E. Yount collection, Duke University Medical Center Archives.
- Processing Information
- Processed by Archives staff, June 2005
- Encoded by Emily Glenn, June 2005
- Revised by Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2008
Biographical Note
David Eugene Yount was born in Prescott, Ariz., on 5 June 1935, the oldest of four children. Having an interest in physics, he earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1957, and his master's and doctor's degrees from Stanford University in 1959 and 1963, respectively. During his studies, he earned a variety of scholastic honors. He was valedictorian at Scottsdale High School in 1953, received full-tuition scholarships and graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology, was honored with a membership into Sigma Xi at Stanford, and received a Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Postdoctoral Fellowship at Orsay, France, from 1964 to 1965.
Yount began his educational career as an instructor and assistant professor at Princeton University from 1962 until 1964. From 1965 to 1969, he was a member of the professional staff at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Returning to the classroom, he became an associate professor of physics and the University of Hawaii in 1969, and was promoted to full professor in 1972. He served as chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1979 to 1984, and was acting assistant vice president for academic affairs in 1985. From 1986 to 1995, Yount was the vice president for research and graduate education.
In 1974, he began a series of experimental and theoretical investigations on decompression sickness (commonly referred to as "the bends"). In the course of this work, he developed a theoretical model describing the nuclei that initiate bubble formation in watery substances, including blood and tissue. He then used this model to predict the onset of decompression sickness in salmon, rats, and humans, and to calculate a new set of diving tables. He received the Stover-Link Award of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society in 1987 for this work.
Yount authored and co-authored more than 150 research papers on high-energy physics, diving medicine, acoustics, and surface chemistry. He belonged to numerous professional organizations, including the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, the American Association of University Professors, and Sigma Xi.
Dr. Yount died in 2000. He was survived by his wife, Christel, and four children.
Collection Overview
This collection contains correspondence, reports, committee materials, text of speeches and lectures, presentation notes, manuscript materials, research files, and grant files belonging to David E. Yount, primarily during his tenure at the University of Hawaii. Major subjects include diving, acoustics, decompression, decompression sickness, high-energy physics, and diving physiology. Although the papers range in date from 1862 to 2000, the majority of the papers are from the years 1975 to 2000. Older papers primarily consist of articles Yount referred to for his research. Many papers, speeches, and lectures are located in folders related to conferences, annual meetings, and workshops that Yount attended.
Collection Arrangement
The original filing order of this collection has been retained as received from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). An alternate arrangement might have existed prior to receipt. The materials listed in this inventory are described on the box level.
Yount wrote information on many of his folders, and the original folders have therefore been retained inside the new folders. Yount titled his folders both on the folder tabs and on the folder bottoms. These titles have been retained. In cases where the tab title and the bottom title do not match, both titles have been retained, with the bottom title in parenthesis below the tab title. Any words enclosed in brackets have been supplied by the processing archivist.
Online Catalog Headings
- Decompression
- Decompression Sickness
- Yount, David (David E.)
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.
- Diving
- Acoustics
- Physics
- Diving physiology
Collection Series
Container List
This box primarily contains collected works, papers and drafts of papers, handwritten notes, and presentations. Papers included in the "Old Strauss References" appear to be papers used by former University of Hawaii School of Medicine faculty member Richard H. Strauss. Also included are works authored by Yount, Thomas Kunkle, Edward L. Beckman, C. V. Paganelli and Chick M. Yeung, including Yount and Kunkle's paper "Gas Nucleation in the Vicinity of Solid Hydrophobic Spheres"; Yount and Paganelli, and Strauss's "Bubble Formation Within Decompressed Hen's Eggs"; and Yount and Strauss's "Bubble Formation in Gelatin: A Model for Decompression Sickness."
Materials included in the "Man in the Sea" folder relate to Yount's presentation of the paper "The Physics of Bubble Formation" at the International Symposium on Man in the Sea in Honolulu, Hawaii, in July 1975. Other materials in this box relate to bubbles, one of Yount's major research interests, especially in relation to decompression sickness. Yount wrote item-level lists of the materials inside each "bubble" folder. The "Bubbles" file is a continuation of the following files found in boxes 3-5: Diving Safety I-XI, Würzburg I-XII, Kozlov I-V, St. Petersburg I-IV, Würzburg-Kozlov, and Markin-Volkov.
Materials in this box primarily pertain to the University of Hawaii course "Physiology 701: Undersea and Hyperbaric Physiology"; materials pertaining to the University of Hawaii's Diving Safety Committee; the Pacific Congress on Marine Sciences and Technology (PACON); and the Fifth International Meeting on High Pressure Biology held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Yount presented the paper "On the Elastic Properties of the Membranes that Stabilize Gas Cavitation Nuclei" at this conference.
Additional materials related to "On the Elastic Properties of the Membranes that Stabilize Gas Cavitation Nuclei" are located in boxes 4 and 5.
This box includes additional materials from the Fifth International Meeting on High Pressure Biology held in St. Petersburg, Russia; materials written by V. S. Markin and A. G. Volkov; materials pertaining to Christel Yount's presentation at the 1998 Children's Literature Association (ChLA) conference in Paris; materials pertaining to the 2000 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society meeting in Stockholm, Sweden; and materials from Yount's trip to the University of Würzburg (Universität Würzburg) in Würzburg, Germany, including overhead projector transparencies and lecture notes from Yount's presentation "Plants from the Ground Up: A Physicist's View of Water Transport."
Materials from the Stockholm meeting include drafts of the poster "A New Algorithm for Repetitive Dives," presented by Yount, Eric Maiken, and Erik Baker, as well as related correspondence.
Yount referenced V. S. Markin and A. G. Volkov in his paper "On the Elastic Properties of the Membranes that Stabilize Gas Cavitation Nuclei."
This box includes additional materials from Yount's Würzburg trip, papers written by M. M. Kozlov, materials related to Yount's paper "On the Elastic Properties of the Membranes that Stabilize Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (included in the Kozlov folders); materials related to Yount's paper "Application of a Bubble Formation Model to Decompression Sickness in Rats and Humans"; materials related to Yount's paper "Application of a Bubble Formation Model to Decompression Sickness in Fingerling Salmon"; and materials related to Yount's paper "On the Evolution, Generation, and Regeneration of Gas Cavitation Nuclei."
Yount heavily referenced M. M. Kozlov in his paper "On the Elastic Properties of the Membranes that Stabilize Gas Cavitation Nuclei."
This box includes materials related to Yount's paper "A Model for Microbubble Fission in Surfactant Solutions"; materials related to Yount's paper "On the Use of a Bubble Formation Model to Calculate Diving Tables"; correspondence related to the Victor K. LaMer Award for graduate research in colloid and surface chemistry; materials related to Yount's paper and slide presentation "Treatment of Decompression Sickness Based on Bubble Dissolution Physics" (presented at the 1980 International Diving Symposium in New Orleans, La.); materials related to the November 1979 Workshop on Isobaric Countercurrent Diffusion Phenomenon, including Yount's paper "Multiple Inert-Gas Bubble Disease: A Review of the Theory"; materials related to the September 1978 UMS Decompression Theory Workshop, including a draft of a paper entitled "Decompression Theory Workshop: Responses to the Twelve Assumptions Presently Used for Calculating Decompression Schedules"; drafts of Yount's paper "Bubble Formation in Supersaturated Gelatin: A Further Investigation of Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (written with Chick M. Yeung); and materials related to Yount's paper "On the Use of Oxygen to Facilitate Decompression" (written with David A. Lally). Materials in the "Collected Works" folders include drafts of Yount's paper "Determination of the Radii Gas Cavitation Nuclei by Filtering Gelatin" (written with Chick M. Yeung); and publications containing articles written by Yount and his colleagues.
Materials in the "Collected Works" folders include drafts of "The Use of Bubble Formation Models in Calculating Decompression Schedules" (written by Yount, T. D. Kunkle and E. L. Beckman), "Application of a Bubble Formation Model to Decompression Sickness in Rats and Humans," "Stabilization of Gas Nuclei by Surface Active Compounds" (written by Yount, T. D. Kunkle, J. S. D'Arrigo, F. W. Ingle, Chick M. Yeung, and E. L. Beckman), "Physiology of Diving: Bubbles, Gelatin, and the Bends," "Bubble Formation in Gelatin: A Model for Decompression Sickness"; and copies of Yount's published articles.
Other materials include articles written by Lawrence A. Crum; materials related to the court case State of Hawaii vs. Melvin Freitas, during which Yount was subpoenaed as an expert witness; Alan Koide's dissertation proposal, correspondence between Yount and Scientific American editor Dennis Flanagan; materials regarding the University of Hawaii's Hyperbaric Treatment Center; drafts of "A Microscopic Study of Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (written with E. W. Gillary, and D. C. Hoffman); Joseph D'Arrigo's article "Physical Properties of the Nonionic Surfactants Surrounding Gas Cavitation Nuclei"; materials related to the Department of Defense University Research Instrumentation Program; articles written by the University of Witwatersrand's Felix Sebba (located in the "Aphrons" folder); articles written by Duke University Medical Center's Richard D. Vann; materials related to Yount's work with the Consulting Institute of America; articles about the hydrophobic effect written by Duke University's Charles Tanford; copies of the publication Pressure; and articles about acoustic cavitation.
This box includes a manuscript review for Undersea Biomedical Research; articles written by P. K. Weathersby; an 1984 annotated bibliography of human decompression data; articles and notes about repetitive diving; materials related to Yount's article "Surface Tension of Bubbles and Microbubble Nuclei" (published in the Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science; drafts of, and images related to "Implications of the Varying Permeability Model for Reverse Dive Profiles," written by Yount, Eric Maiken, and Erik Baker and presented at the 1999 Reverse Dive Profiles Workshop; transparencies related to the implications of varying permeability model (VPM) for reverse dive profiles; materials related to Yount's studies done through the University of Hawaii's Sea Grant College Program; Yount's paper "Bubble Formation Nuclei: Their Origins and Implications"; and other articles relevant to Yount's research.
This box includes additional materials related to Yount's studies done through the University of Hawaii's Sea Grant College Program; papers about bubble formation and decompression sickness belong to and/or written by Richard H. Strauss; drafts of Yount's article "Skins of Varying Permeability: The Principal Stabilization Mechanism for Gas Cavitation Nuclei"; drafts of Yount's paper "Bubble Formation in Gelatin: A Model for Decompression Sickness" (written with Richard H. Strauss); and drafts of Yount's paper "Gelatin Filtration: A New Technique for Determining the Radii of Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (written with Chick M. Yeung and Frank W. Ingle).
This box includes additional materials related to ount's paper "Gelatin Filtration: A New Technique for Determining the Radii of Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (written with Chick M. Yeung and Frank W. Ingle); correspondence and other materials related to Yount's paper "Bubble Formation in Gelatin: A Model for Decompression Sickness"; materials related to Yount's paper "A Microscopic Study of Gas Cavitation Nuclei" (written with E. W. Gillary and D. C. Hoffman); materials related to the 1990 Pacific Congress on Marine Sciences and Technology (PACON)held in Tokyo, Japan; materials related to Yount's trip to Taiwan for the 1987 International Undersea Medical Symposium, including notes and handouts pertaining to his presentation "Theoretical Considerations of Safe Decompression"; and materials pertaining to Yount's paper "The Physics of Bubble Formation: Implications for Improvement of Decompression Tables," presented at the Second International Symposium on Man in the Sea, November 1988.
This box includes additional materials pertaining to the Second International Symposium on Man in the Sea; materials related to Yount's trip to Norway, including his paper "Growth of Bubbles from Nuclei," presented at the International Symposium on Supersaturation and Bubble Formation in Fluids and Organisms; materials relating to Yount's 1986 trip to Japan for the Ninth Symposium on Underwater Physiology and the Workshop for Decompression; materials related to the 1986 International Symposium in Diving Technology, Physiology and Medicine held in Shanghai, China; materials related to the 1991 American Academy of Underwater Sciences Symposium, including Yount's paper "Gelatin, Bubbles, and the Bends"; materials related to the 1989 American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Biomechanics of Safe Ascents Workshop (Woods Hole, Mass.), including Yount's paper "The Physics of Bubble Formation: Implications for Safe Ascent Rates in Divers"; correspondence with Albert R. Behnke pertaining to nitrogen being soluble hemoglobin; papers pertaining to bubbles; Ilya Prigogine's publication Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes; a manuscript review for Undersea Biomedical Research; and materials related to Yount's consultation work pertaining to the formation of gas bubbles in ink used in high-speed printers.
This box contains a research proposal from the University of Houston; materials related to a manuscript Yount planned to publish through CRC Press; materials relating to the cooperative agreement between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS) and the University of Hawaii (located in the "PACON IV" folder); dissertation materials for two of Yount's students; and papers written by Brian J. Thompson.
This box includes Hans-Jürgen Krock's 1981 technical report Gas Analyses of Water Samples for OTEC Program; the narrative final report of Yount's study "Exogenous Gas Bubble Disease: Physical Factors in the Etiology, Detection and Prevention"; correspondence between Yount and the Punahou School; papers written by Edvard A. Hemmingsen and Barbara B. Hemmingsen; papers and proposals by Brian G. D'Aoust; manuscripts reviews; papers written by Peter Tikuisis, C. A. Ward, and R. D. Venter; publications from the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine and the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies; the Royal Naval Physiological Laboratory's 1968 air diving tables; a bibliographic citation list pertaining to helium; papers written by Yoshihiro Mano and colleagues; Edward Thalmann's report Phase II Testing of Decompression Algorithms for Use in the U.S. Navy Underwater Decompression Computer; the 1988 French official air tables; and decompression sickness table calculations; as well as other papers pertaining to Yount's fields of study.
This box includes decompression sickness table calculations; materials related to the 56th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium held in Blacksburg, Va.; materials related to the 1982 Cavitation and Polyphase Flow Forum held in St. Louis, Mo.; materials related to the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Undersea Medical Society held in Norfolk, Va.; materials related to the 1983 Cavitation and Multiphase Flow Forum held in Houston, Tex.; materials related to the Eighth Symposium on Underwater Physiology held in St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada; materials related to Stanford's Linear Collider Project; materials related to the 1983 Colloid and Surface Science Symposium held in Toronto; materials related to the Decompression Group Symposium and the 1984 Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting held in San Antonio, Tex.; materials related to the 1984 American Chemical Society Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, Pa.; materials related to the 1984 Undersea Medical Society North Pacific Chapter Meeting held in Kauai, Hawaii; materials related to the 1985 Satellite Symposium on Environmental Physiology held in Buffalo, N.Y.; and materials related to the Physics in Collision V Conference held in Autun, France. Materials related to workshops, conferences, and annual meetings oftentimes contain drafts of Yount's papers that he presented at these events.
This box includes materials from the 1985 Joint Undersea Medical Society/Hyperbaric Oxygen Conference Annual Meeting held in Long Beach, Calif.; materials related to the 1992 Pacific Forum for Marine Science and Technology (PACON) held in Kona, Hawaii; materials related to the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium on Mechanics and Physics of Bubbles in Liquids held in Pasadena, Calif.; materials related to the 1981 International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies held in Bonn, Germany; Yount's travel to Stanford University in 1980; materials related to the 1981 Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, Calif.; materials related to a lecture Yount gave in Kona, Hawaii in 1980; materials related to the 7th Symposium on Underwater Physiology held in Athens, Greece; materials related to the Second Chemical Congress of the North American Continent held in San Francisco, Calif.; materials related to the 1979 Isobaric Counterdiffusion Workshop; materials related to the 1979 Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting held in Key Biscayne, Fla.; materials related to the American College of Sports Medicine's 1979 Annual Meeting and Pan-Pacific Conference held in Waikiki, Hawaii; materials related to the 1979 Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Chapter of the Undersea Medical Society held in San Francisco, Calif.; materials related to the 1977 Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting held in Toronto, Canada; materials related to the 1978 Decompression Table Theory Workshop held in Bethesda, Md.; and materials related to the 1978 American Chemical Society Meeting held in Anaheim, Calif. Materials related to workshops, conferences, and annual meetings oftentimes contain drafts of Yount's papers that he presented at these events.
This box includes additional materials related to the 1978 American Chemical Society Meeting held in Anaheim, Calif., including a copy of Yount's paper "Application of a Bubble Nucleation Model to Decompression Sickness in Rats and Humans"; materials related to the 1978 Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting held in Seattle, Wash.; additional materials related to the 1978 Decompression Table Theory Workshop held in Bethesda, Md.; materials related to a 1978 lecture given in Kona, Hawaii; materials related to the Sixth Symposium on Underwater Physiology held in San Diego, Calif; and materials related to the 1975 International Symposium on "Man in the Sea" held in Honolulu, Hawaii.