Leo Beranek

Leo Beranek
Leo Beranek, 2011
Born
Leo Leroy Beranek

(1914-09-15)September 15, 1914
DiedOctober 10, 2016(2016-10-10) (aged 102)
Alma materCornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
Harvard University
Known forAcoustics (1954, 1986)
Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers (2012)
Music, Acoustics, and Architecture (1962, 2004)
AwardsWallace Clement Sabine Medal (1961)
Audio Engineering Society Gold Medal Award (1971)
ASA Gold Medal (1975)
National Medal of Science in Engineering (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsAcoustics
Electrical engineering
InstitutionsBolt, Beranek and Newman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Vinton Hunt
Doctoral studentsKenneth 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.