Wallace Clement Sabine Scientist

Wallace Clement Sabine (June 13, 1868 – January 10, 1919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1886 at the age of 18 before joining Harvard University for graduate study and remaining as a faculty member. Sabine was acoustical architect of Boston's Symphony Hall, widely considered one of the two or three best concert halls in the world for its acoustics.

Personal facts

Wallace Clement Sabine
Birth dateJune 13, 1868
Nationality
United States
Date of deathJanuary 10, 1919
Education
Harvard University

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
John Trowbridge (physicist)
doctoral student
Field of study
Acoustics

Topical connections

Alan LowenthalPolitician
Benjamin Osgood PeirceScientist
Albert SealyPolitician

Wallace Clement Sabine on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10318
  2. http://people.brandeis.edu/~sekuler/SensoryProcessesMaterial/reverberation.pdf
  3. http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/references?id=lit39364
  4. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201101/physicshistory.cfm
  5. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/sanders.html