Russell Cleven Coile - Revision history

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	Coile published an autobiography, ''DisasterMan'' (2009) and 142 professional papers~~, including~~:		In his later publications, Coile's name is given as R. C. Coile, Sr, to distinguish him from his son Russell Cleven Coile, Jr, who published extensively on health acre management.

			Coile published an autobiography, ''DisasterMan'' (2009) and 142 professional papers. Those relating to information science include:

	*"Periodical literature for electronic engineers." ''Proceedings of the IRE'' 38, no. 12 (1950): 1380-1384.		*"Periodical literature for electronic engineers." ''Proceedings of the IRE'' 38, no. 12 (1950): 1380-1384.
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	*''Russell Cleven Coile''. Obituary. 2011. [http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf]		*''Russell Cleven Coile''. Obituary. 2011. [http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf]
	*"Russell C. Coile. Military rsearcher." '' Washington Post'' Obituary. July 2, 2011. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/06/29/AGLsHUvH_story.html]		*"Russell C. Coile. Military rsearcher." '' Washington Post'' Obituary. July 2, 2011. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/06/29/AGLsHUvH_story.html]
	*Coile, Ellen Miller. ''Under Two Flags: A Memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2017 Autobiography by Coile's second wife.		*Coile, Ellen Miller. ''Under Two Flags: A Memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2017. Autobiography by Coile's second wife.

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	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	~~Worked on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical~~ research~~; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work~~, ~~etc~~.~~; consulting work from years right after~~ the ~~war; Worked for Office~~ of ~~Naval Research for 15 years; worked at various companies and did consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting~~.		Coile's contributions to radio and television transmission, operations research, and disaster response ranged widely. Within information science he contributed primarily to bibliometric studies of subject areas and Lotka's law on the distribution of the frequency of authorship.

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

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	Russell Cleven Coile (1917-2011)[[File:Russell Cleven Coile.jpg\|alt=Portrait of Russell Cleven Coile\|thumb\|Russell Cleven Coile]]		'''Russell Cleven Coile''' (1917-2011) was an American operations researcher.

			[[File:Russell Cleven Coile.jpg\|alt=Portrait of Russell Cleven Coile\|thumb\|Russell Cleven Coile]]

	== Life ==		== Life ==
	~~Student of [[Vannevar Bush\|~~'''~~Vannevar''' '''Bush''']] at~~ '''[[~~Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT~~]]~~'''~~		'''Russell Cleven Coile, Sr.''' was born on March 11, 1917 in Washington, DC. He earned a Bachelor’s degree and two graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, in Cambridge, MA, where he a student assistant working for [[Vannevar Bush]] on his microfilm rapid selector. He later received a PhD in Information Science from The City University, London, England.

	~~Two obituaries~~, with ~~good biographical information, are available:~~		He was a geophysical observer in an observatory in Peru. Coile served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, and was the project officer for IFF, the transponder used in aircraft. When the U.S. Air Force was created in 1947, he transferred Air Force to continue his projects and retired from the USAF Reserve with the rank of Colonel.

	~~http://russellcoile~~.~~com/RussellCoileMemorial~~.~~pdf~~		After World War II, Coile he worked as an engineer on designing transmission antennas for radio and television. He then worked for 32 years on military Operations Research at the Center for Naval Analyses.

	~~https://www~~.~~washingtonpost~~.~~com/local/obituaries/~~2011~~/08/08/AGLsHUvH_story~~.~~html~~		In 1982 he moved to the Monterey peninsula in California to be Chief Scientist at the Combat Development Experimentation Command at Ford Ord and Fort Hunter Liggett. He then became an emergency manager for local governments and an adjunct professor at the Naval Postgraduate School researching disaster response. He died on June 4, 2011 in Pacific Grove, California.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Worked on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical research; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work, etc.; consulting work from years right after the war; Worked for Office of Naval Research for 15 years; worked at various companies and did consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting.		Worked on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical research; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work, etc.; consulting work from years right after the war; Worked for Office of Naval Research for 15 years; worked at various companies and did consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting.

	== ~~Selected~~ Publications ==		== Publications ==
	~~Russell Cleven~~ Coile, ~~Thesis~~, ~~Dissertation~~, ~~English~~, ~~1939~~, ~~Massachusetts Institute~~ of ~~Technology~~, ~~Dept~~. of ~~Electrical Engineering~~		Coile published an autobiography, ''DisasterMan'' (2009) and 142 professional papers, including:

			*"Periodical literature for electronic engineers." ''Proceedings of the IRE'' 38, no. 12 (1950): 1380-1384.
			*"Periodical literature for electrical engineers." ''Journal of Documentation'' 8, no. 4 (1952): 209-226.
			*"Information sources for electrical and electronics engineers." ''IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech'' 12, no. 3 (1969): 71-78.
			*"Lotka and information science." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 26, no. 2 (1975): 133.
			*"Lotka's frequency distribution of scientific productivity." ''Journal of the American Society for Information science'' 28, no. 6 (1977): 366-370.
			*"The role of amateur radio in providing emergency electronic communication for disaster management." ''Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal'' 6, no. 3 (1997): 176-185.

	== ~~Papers~~ ==		== Further reading ==
	~~No information available~~.		*Autobiography: ''Disasterman : a biographical memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc., 2009.
			*''Russell Cleven Coile''. Obituary. 2011. [http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf]
			*"Russell C. Coile. Military rsearcher." '' Washington Post'' Obituary. July 2, 2011. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/06/29/AGLsHUvH_story.html]
			*Coile, Ellen Miller. ''Under Two Flags: A Memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2017 Autobiography by Coile's second wife.

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	[[File:Russell Cleven Coile.jpg\|alt=Portrait of Russell Cleven Coile\|thumb\|Russell Cleven Coile]]		Russell Cleven Coile (1917-2011)[[File:Russell Cleven Coile.jpg\|alt=Portrait of Russell Cleven Coile\|thumb\|Russell Cleven Coile]]

	== Life ==		== Life ==
	Student of '''Bush's''' at '''MIT''',		Student of [[Vannevar Bush\|'''Vannevar''' '''Bush''']] at '''[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]'''

	Two obituaries, with good biographical information, are available: ~~<nowiki>~~http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf~~</nowiki> ; <nowiki>http~~://~~articles~~.washingtonpost.com/2011~~-07-02~~/~~local~~/~~35268145_1_scientist-pacific-grove-researcher<~~/~~nowiki>~~		Two obituaries, with good biographical information, are available:

			http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf

			https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/08/08/AGLsHUvH_story.html

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	~~worked~~ on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical research; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work, etc.; consulting work from years right after the war; Worked for Office of Naval Research for 15 years; ~~Has~~ worked at various companies and ~~has done~~ consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting.		Worked on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical research; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work, etc.; consulting work from years right after the war; Worked for Office of Naval Research for 15 years; worked at various companies and did consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting.

	== Selected Publications ==		== Selected Publications ==

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	Student of '''Bush's''' at '''MIT''',		Student of '''Bush's''' at '''MIT''',

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== Life ==
Student of '''Bush's''' at '''MIT''',

Two obituaries, with good biographical information, are available: <nowiki>http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf</nowiki> ; <nowiki>http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-07-02/local/35268145_1_scientist-pacific-grove-researcher</nowiki>

== Contributions ==
worked on Rapid Selector; Consultant; Worked in South America on geophysical research; Worked for Carnegie Institute in Washington after MIT; During the war worked on radar work, etc.; consulting work from years right after the war; Worked for Office of Naval Research for 15 years; Has worked at various companies and has done consulting work (particularly disaster consulting) and published several books relating to disaster consulting.

== Selected Publications ==
Russell Cleven Coile, Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1939, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

== Papers ==
No information available.

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	In his later publications, Coile's name is given as R. C. Coile, Sr, to distinguish him from his son Russell Cleven Coile, Jr, who published extensively on health ~~acre~~ management.		In his later publications, Coile's name is given as R. C. Coile, Sr, to distinguish him from his son Russell Cleven Coile, Jr, who published extensively on health care management.

	Coile published an autobiography, ''DisasterMan'' (2009) and ~~142~~ professional papers. Those relating to information science include:		Coile published an autobiography, ''DisasterMan'' (2009) in which Appendix B (pp 635-642) lists disaster response an preparedness papers and presentations and Appendix C (pp 643-657) lists other professional papers and presentations. Those relating to information science include:

	*"Periodical literature for electronic engineers." ''Proceedings of the IRE'' 38, no. 12 (1950): 1380-1384.		*"Periodical literature for electronic engineers." ''Proceedings of the IRE'' 38, no. 12 (1950): 1380-1384.
	*"Periodical literature for electrical engineers." ''Journal of Documentation'' 8, no. 4 (1952): 209-226.		*"Periodical literature for electrical engineers." ''Journal of Documentation'' 8, no. 4 (1952): 209-226.
	*"Information sources for electrical and electronics engineers." ''IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech'' 12, no. 3 (1969): 71-78.		*"Information sources for electrical and electronics engineers." ''IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech'' 12, no. 3 (1969): 71-78.
	*"Lotka and information science." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 26, no. 2 (1975): 133.		*"Lotka and information science." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 26, no. 2 (1975): 133-134.
			*"A new application of computers for information scientists." ''The Information Scientist'' 9, no 4 (Dec 1975): 149-152.
			*''Bibliometric study of frequency distributions of scientific productivity''. PhD dissertation, City University, London, 1977. A extended summary is in his ''Disasterman" autobiography (2009, pp 288-304).
	*"Lotka's frequency distribution of scientific productivity." ''Journal of the American Society for Information science'' 28, no. 6 (1977): 366-370.		*"Lotka's frequency distribution of scientific productivity." ''Journal of the American Society for Information science'' 28, no. 6 (1977): 366-370.
	*"The role of amateur radio in providing emergency electronic communication for disaster management." ''Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal'' 6, no. 3 (1997): 176-185.		*"The role of amateur radio in providing emergency electronic communication for disaster management." ''Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal'' 6, no. 3 (1997): 176-185.
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	*Autobiography: ''Disasterman : a biographical memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc., 2009.		*Autobiography: ''Disasterman : a biographical memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc., 2009.
	*''Russell Cleven Coile''. Obituary. 2011. [http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf]		*''Russell Cleven Coile''. Obituary. 2011. [http://russellcoile.com/RussellCoileMemorial.pdf]
	*"Russell C. Coile. Military rsearcher." '' Washington Post'' Obituary. July 2, 2011. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/06/29/AGLsHUvH_story.html]		*"Russell C. Coile. Military rsearcher." '' Washington Post''. Obituary. July 2, 2011. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2011/06/29/AGLsHUvH_story.html]
	*Coile, Ellen Miller. ''Under Two Flags: A Memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2017. Autobiography by Coile's second wife.		*Coile, Ellen Miller. ''Under Two Flags: A Memoir''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2017. Autobiography by Coile's second wife.