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Leo Beranek
Leo Beranek, 2011
Born
Leo Leroy Beranek
(1914-09-15)September 15, 1914
Solon, Iowa, US
Died
October 10, 2016(2016-10-10) (aged 102)
Westwood, Massachusetts, US
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) Harvard University
Known for
Acoustics (1954, 1986) Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers (2012) Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (1962, 2004)
Awards
Wallace Clement Sabine Medal (1961) ASA Gold Medal (1975) National Medal of Science in Engineering (2002)
Scientific career
Fields
Acoustics Electrical engineering
Institutions
Bolt, Beranek and Newman Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Doctoral advisor
Frederick Vinton Hunt
Doctoral students
Kenneth N. Stevens James L. Flanagan
Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies). He authored Acoustics, considered a classic textbook in this field, and its updated and extended version published in 2012 under the title Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers. He was also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses, and authored the classic textbook Music, Acoustics, and Architecture, revised and extended in 2004 under the title Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Music, Acoustics, and Architecture.
Leo Leroy Beranek (September 15, 1914 – October 10, 2016) was an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of...
its roots in an initial partnership formed on 15 October 1948 between LeoBeranek and Richard Bolt, professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
field. Anechoic chambers, a term coined by American acoustics expert LeoBeranek, were initially exclusively used to refer to acoustic anechoic chambers...
built in the U.S., and the 13th Best Concert Hall in the world (from LeoBeranek's Concert Halls and Opera Houses). Seiji Ozawa Hall has received numerous...
Beranek and Newman Obituary at the Acoustical Society of America, focused on Bolt's achievements in acoustics. BBN website Obituary by LeoBeranek Richard...
— Head football coach at Montana State University LeoBeranek (1936) — Co-founder of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Chris Carney (1981) — Congressman from Pennsylvania's...
area and later by Time Sharing Ltd. in the United Kingdom. In 1996, LeoBeranek said "We even developed a programming language called TELCOMP that to...
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and The Hayward, built in 1967/8. LeoBeranek, an American acoustics engineer who had undertaken measurements of all...
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Hunt continued this work with his first doctoral student, LeoBeranek. In 1939, Hunt, Beranek and Maa published a theory of the separate decay times of...
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the American Society of Church History 1965 Succeeded by Preceded by LeoBeranek President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994–1997 Succeeded by...
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