Ph.D., Texas A&M, (1966)
Dr. Purrington's research interests include Nuclear Physics & History of Physics.
R. D. Purrington, "Bottom Scattering in Acoustic Propagation Modeling," J. Comput. Acoust. 2, 147-160 (1994).
R. D. Purrington, "Scattering Kernal Approach to Bottom Loss and Scattering in a Parabolic Equation Model," Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, 385-398 (1996).
R. D. Purrington, "Physics in the Nineteenth Century," Rutgers University Press. (1997).