Paul Sabine
Paul Earls Sabine ( 1879 - December 28, 1958 in Colorado Springs ) was an American expert on room acoustics .
He was a Harvard University trained physicist and distantly related to Wallace Sabine (a cousin) and until 1947 he headed the Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories (originally founded by George Fabyan , then headed by Wallace Sabine, who died in 1919) in Geneva, Illinois ) , which then belonged to the Amour Institute of Technology Research Foundation (AITRF) and today to the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI). Paul Sabine developed test procedures and standardizations there.
He was a founding member of the Acoustical Society of America , and was temporarily its president.
His son Hale Johnson Sabine (1909–1981) was a well-known acoustician who worked with his father.
Fonts
- Acoustics and Architecture . McGraw Hill, New York 1932.
literature
- Obituary Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1959.
- Daniel Raichel: The Science and Applications of Acoustics . Springer Verlag 2006, p. 6f (section history of acoustics)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sabine, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sabine, Paul Earls (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American expert in room acoustics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1879 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1958 |
| Place of death | Colorado Springs |