The Robert B. King Fuze Collection Documents, 1943-1945, donated with the fuzes, include a set of the Confidential Bulletins of Section L (OSRD Contract OEMsr-418), as well as several technical manuals published by the U.S.Navy. All materials have been declassified.

A native of Pasadena, Robert Burnett King (1908-1995) was the son of Arthur S. King, an eminent spectroscopist, who served as director of the physical laboratory of the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena under George Ellery Hale. Robert King graduated from Pomona College in 1930 and received his PhD in astronomy from Princeton in 1933. During the 1930s he taught at MIT and then returned to Pasadena to the Mount Wilson Observatory as a research fellow, beginning what would be his principal research work for the rest of his life-the measurement of so-called f-values for spectral lines of astronomical importance. After the reorganization of the Observatory following World War II and its association with Caltech, King was named professor of physics at Caltech in 1948, a position he held until his retirement in 1968.

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Collection is open for research.