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Harvey Hart Hubbard
1921–2012
Harvey Hart Hubbard, 90, retired National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aero-acousti- cian and noise control engineer, and a resident of Newport News, died May 14, 2012 after a short illness.
Born in Swanton, Vermont, he attend- ed one-room schools in Franklin County, Vermont, graduated as valedictorian from Swanton High School and was an engi- neering graduate of the University of Vermont. He served in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II and retired as a Lt. Col. in the Air Force reserves.
His career at NASA was devoted to
defining, alleviating and controlling noise
from large commercial aircraft and wind
turbines. He particularly enjoyed the docu-
mentation phase of research. He was the
author of over 130 NASA and journal pub-
lications, chapters in a number of reference textbooks, and edit- ed a two-volume book, Aeroacoustics of Flight Vehicles, Theory and Practice, for which he received a citation from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Noise Control Engineering and the Journal of Sound and Vibration. After retirement from NASA, he served as a senior research associate at the College of William and Mary in its school of engineering, consultant for the Bionetics Corporation, and senior staff engineer at the Lockheed Science and Engineering Company.
For his many contributions to science and his years of public service, NASA honored him with a special service
award for group achievement, a gold medal for outstanding scientific achieve- ment, and, after retirement, a gold medal for distinguished public service. Researchers and students who use the “Hubbard Criterion,” a scientific formula to predict the effect of noise on physical structures, will ever remember his legacy.
Harvey was a long-time member of the Acoustical Society of America, served as chairman of its Technical Council and as president of the Society, was elected as a Fellow, and awarded its first silver medal for noise control research contributions. He was a charter member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, served as president of the organization, and was elected to fellowship in the Institute in 2010 and was the first American recipient of the Aeroacoustics Award bestowed by
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Harvey was a long-time member of the Hilton Presbyterian Church and served as elder, trustee, and on many committees. He served on the Board of Directors of Presbyterian Homes and Family Services and was an active supporter of the Zuni Peanut Sheltered Workshop Training Center for challenged young adults. He cared deeply about mission of the operation in Zuni and devoted much time and
effort to ensure its success.
He is survived by four children.
Thomas Hubbard
Ulrich J. Kurze, one of the outstanding members of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and thereafter of Mueller-BBM GmbH, Planegg near Munich, Germany, lost his fight with an incurable disease and passed away on 20 July 2012.
During his three-year stay at BBN (1968–1971), he was my colleague, became a life long family friend, and sci- entific collaborator. Jointly, we hold two US patents on the design of special pur- pose silencers and have a key, joint pub- lication, Sound Attenuation in Ducts Lined with Non-Isotropic Material. Ulrich also contributed (with Grant S. Anderson) chapters on Outdoor Sound Propagation to both the 1992 and the 2006 editions of the book Noise and
Vibration Control Engineering which I co-edited with Leo L. Beranek.
Ulrich liked to “sink his teeth” into important, complex acoustic problems and had the tenacity to solve them in a complete manner. In his profession and in his private life, he was the most reliable person I have ever known. At BBN, Ulrich, as the project manager and princi- pal investigator, developed a comprehen- sive computer program to predict the sound attenuation and pressure drop per- formance of any combination of silencer types and their connecting transition ducts. This program has been in use over forty years. In 1970 he also developed the computer program Standard Method in Noise Analysis (STAMINA) which, until 1995, remained the official highway-
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Ulrich J. Kurze
1937–2012