Physicists and engineers who built the science and practice of sound, including the founder of architectural acoustics, who designed the sound of a famous concert hall, the researcher of speech and hearing who built early hearing instruments, and an acoustical physicist who studied sound in rooms and in the air. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person an acoustician or credits the person with founding or advancing acoustics. It excludes musicians and instrument makers.
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Wallace Clement Sabine (Wikipedia)
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who founded the field of architectural acoustics
Harvey Fletcher (Wikipedia)
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He is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early electronic hearing aid.
Vern Oliver Knudsen
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was an American acoustical physicist
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