Elfyn Richards
Elfyn John Richards (born December 28, 1914 in Barry near Cardiff , † December 7, 1995 in Romsey , Hampshire ) was a British physicist, aircraft engineer and expert on acoustics .
Richards studied mathematics and physics at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth and at the University of Cambridge (St. John's College). Then he went into the aircraft industry. First he was from 1938 at the Bristol Airplane Company (among other things as a colleague of James Lighthill , Ernest Relf, Arthur Fage, Douglas Holder and Sydney Goldstein ), then 1939 to 1945 in the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington and from 1945 he was a senior aerodynamicist and Assistant Chief Designer (under George Edwards ) at Vickers-Armstrong in Weybridge , where he was involved in the design of the Vickers Valiant , Vickers Viking and Vickers Viscount . It was then that his interest in noise and acoustics began. In 1950 he became a professor of aeronautics (Aeronautical Engineering) at the University of Southampton , where he moved to a chair in applied acoustics in 1963. There he founded the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR). From 1967 to 1975 he was Vice Chancellor of the newly formed Loughborough University of Technology before returning to the University of Southampton.
He was considered the leading British expert on noise and vibration in flight engineering. He was a member of the UK Noise Advisory Council.
He was married three times and had three daughters from his first marriage (from 1941).
In 1986 he received the Rayleigh Medal (Institute of Acoustics) and the James Watt Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers , the Taylor Gold Medal from the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Silver Medal from the Royal Society of Arts . In 1958 he became OBE . From 1968 to 1970 he was President of the British Acoustical Society and from 1971 to 1973 President of the Society of Environmental Engineers . In 1983 he received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University . In 1980 he became an honorary member of the Acoustical Society of America .
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- with DJ Mead: Noise and Acoustic Fatigue in Aeronautics, Wiley 1968
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| SURNAME | Richards, Elfyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richards, Elfyn John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barry |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1995 |
| Place of death | Romsey |