Leo Beranek

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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
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.