Leo Beranek

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Leo L. Beranek (2011)

Leo Leroy Beranek (born September 15, 1914 in Solon , Iowa , † October 11, 2016 ) was an American specialist in acoustics . He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was one of the founders of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), an acoustics consulting firm.

Beranek played early piano and grew up in Mount Vernon ( Iowa on). He graduated from Cornell College , Iowa, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1936 while making money doing radio repairs. In 1940 he received his doctorate from Harvard University and was in the electroacoustic laboratory at Harvard during World War II, where he worked, among other things, on noise suppression in radio communications with aircraft. From 1947 to 1958 he was Professor of Communications Engineering at MIT and was one of the founders of BBN in 1948 and its President from 1952 to 1971.

He was the author of a standard work on acoustics that first appeared in 1954. As a specialist in room acoustics, he also examined (and designed in the acoustic field) many concert halls, which was reflected in his 1962 book publication Music, Acoustics and Architecture .

From 1983 to 1986 he was on the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra .

He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1946 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952, and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2003 . He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1966 . In 1975 he received the gold medal of the Acoustical Society of America and in 1971 the gold medal of the Audio Engineering Society. He is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In 2003 he received the Per Bruel Gold Medal from ASME.

Fonts

  • Acoustics, McGraw Hill 1954, Acoustical Society of America 1986
  • Editor with Istvan L. Ver: Noise and Vibration Control Engineering, Wiley 1992
  • Published by: Noise and Vibration Control, 1971, new edition 1988
  • Concert Halls and Opera Houses: music, acoustics and architecture, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 2004
    • First as Music, acoustics and architecture , Wiley 1962
  • Concert and Opera Halls: how they sound, American Institute of Physics / Acoustical Society of America 1996
  • Acoustical Measurements, Wiley 1949, American Institute of Physics / Acoustical Society of America 1988
  • Riding the Waves: a life in sound, science and industry, MIT Press 2008 (autobiography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notification of Death, Acoustical Society of America