Gustavus Simpson

Gustavus Simpson (1920-2006) was an American technical information specialist.

Life

Gustavus Sailer Simpson Jr. was born 13 May 1920 in Cape May, NJ. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1943 with a B.S. in metallurgical engineering, then became a Captain in the U.S. Army. After the war Simpson worked in military intelligence at Wright Patterson Air Fprce Base in Dayton, OH. He then worked for 33 years at the Battelle Memorial Institute focusing on defense intelligence projects as a consulting technical coordinator from 1951 until 60, when he became Assistant Manager for information research 1960. He died December 20, 2006 in Columbus, Ohio.

Publications

• "Practical Information Handling." With J. W. Murdock. Industrial Research (1961): 41-43.
• "Should Science Information Be Centralized or Decentralized?" With T. Kridler. American Behavioral Scientist 8, no. 6 (1965): 29-34.
• "Information centers and services." With Carolyn Flanagan. Annual review of information science and technology 1 (1966): 305-335.
• "$'s and Secrets." With John W. Murdock. American Documentation 18, no. 2 (1967): 110-110.
• "The evolving US national scientific and technical information system." Battelle Technical Review 17 (1968): 21-28.

Further reading

• Gustavus Sailer Simpson Jr. Find a Grave. ID: 205665027 [1]