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Leo Beranek

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American acoustical engineer (1914-2016)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1914 to 2016 · aged 102
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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.

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2013IEEE Founders Medal
2002National Medal of Science
1945Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE Fellow
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wallace Clement Sabine Medal

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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.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1914 to 2016 · aged 102
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