Parsing the prose of D. V. Holliday
Kenneth G. Foote · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2011
The published works of D. V. Holliday have been praised as exemplifying the scientific method [K. G. Foote, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2521 (2004)]. They also exemplify a direct writing style that embodies some elements of a physical theory. Paraphrasing P. Duhem in The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (Princeton University, 1954), these works, by Holliday, communicate “as simply, as completely, and as exactly as possible, a whole group of experimental” findings. These stylistic features are illustrated by reference to three papers published in JASA under Holliday's name, one with a coauthor, during the period 1972–1980.