| LC control no. | n 79142595 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Beranek, L. L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016 Beranek, Leo Leroy, 1914-2016 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Cambridge (Mass.) Lexington (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1914-09-14 |
| Death date | 2016-10-10 |
| Place of birth | Solon (Iowa) |
| Place of death | Westwood (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Sound Acoustical engineering |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bolt, Beranek, and Newman |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Businesspeople Electrical engineers |
| Found in | His Principles of sound control in airplanes, 1944. His Acoustics, c1986: t.p. (Leo L. Beranek) Noise and vibration ... 1992: CIP t.p. (L.L. Beranek) data sheet (b. 9/15/14) pub. info (BBN Labs., Lexington, MA) Wikipedia, April 11, 2016 (Leo Beranek; born Leo Leroy Beranek, September 15, 2014, Solon, Iowa; American acoustics expert, former MIT professor, and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies); also an expert in the design and evaluation of concert halls and opera houses; electrical engineer; professor of communications engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947-1958; he helped found Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), serving as the company's president, 1952-1971) New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 18, 2016 (in obituary published Oct. 17: Leo L. Beranek; b. Leo Leroy Beranek, Sept 14, 1914, Solon, Iowa; d. Oct. 10, Westwood, Mass., aged 102; engineer whose company designed the acoustics for the United Nations and concert halls at Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, then built the direct precursor to the internet under contract to the Defense Department) |
| Associated language | eng |
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