# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-beranek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:59:04.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-beranek"
name: "Leo Beranek"
slug: "leo-beranek"
description: "Leo Leroy Beranek was an American acoustician, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. 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."
tagline: "American acoustical engineer (1914–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Beranek%2C_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-09-15"
deathDate: "2016-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.23076923076923
  historical:           9.827396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump