ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of sciences for the UK and the Commonwealth. He has also recently been awarded the 2014 Rayleigh Gold Medal of the UK Institute of Acoustics, the IoA’s highest award. Leighton is Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics at Southampton University, UK. In 2001 he was the inaugural winner of the ASA’s International Medwin Prize for Acoustical Oceanography, and in 2013 was awarded the ASA’s Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, recognizing his contributions to Biomedical Acoustics, Physical Acoustics, and Acoustical Oceanography. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of his work, in the same month as the two above awards were announced, Leighton was informed that a paper on his radar system TWIPR (doi:10.1098/rspa.2013.0512; first published in his talk at the Montreal ASA meeting in 2013) was 2013’s second-most downloaded paper from the Royal Society’s Proceedings A website, despite being published as late as December 2013 (available online from 23 October 2013 at http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/469/2160/20130512 ). Further details about Fellowship of the Royal Society can be found at https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/ and the IOA Rayleigh Medal can be found at http://www.ioa.org.uk/about-us/awards .
Recent Posts
- Acoustics Today – Volume 20, Issue 2, Summer 2024 July 25, 2024
- The Past Has Ears at Notre Dame Cathedral An Interdisciplinary Project in Digital Archaeoacoustics – Sarabeth S. Mullins and Brian F. G. Katz July 24, 2024
- International Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing 2024 – Brian G. Ferguson, R. Lee Culver, and Kay L. Gemba July 24, 2024
- From the Editor – Arthur N. Popper July 23, 2024
- From the President – Stan Dosso July 23, 2024
- Autism and Indoor Sounds – Fernanda Caldas, Samuel Underwood, Bruno S. Masiero, and Lily M. Wang July 23, 2024
- Beyond Anti-Noise: Foundations and the Future of Active Sound Control – Jordan Cheer and Felix Langfeldt July 23, 2024
- Listening to the Ocean Offers Insights into Climate Change – Lauren A. Freeman July 23, 2024
- Origins and Acoustics of the Modern Pedal Harp – Chris Waltham July 23, 2024
- Recent Acoustical Society of America Awards and Prizes July 23, 2024
- Conversation with a Colleague: Eleanor Stride – Eleanor Stride July 23, 2024
- International Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing 2024 – Brian G. Ferguson, R. Lee Culver, and Kay L. Gemba July 23, 2024
- Explore Acoustics Through ASA Publications’ Podcasts – Kat Setzer July 23, 2024
- Communication in Medical Settings – Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Tessa Bent, and Erica Ryherd July 23, 2024
- AT Collections – Classrooms and Education April 2, 2024