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Allan D. Pierce: A Celebration of a Career in Acoustics in Commemoration of His Retirement as editor-in-Chief of the Acoustical society of America
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Jerry Ginsberg received his doc- torate in 1969 from Columbia University and joined the faculty of Purdue University. He spent the 1975-1976 academic year as a Fulbright-Hayes Advanced Research Fellow at the ENSEM in Nancy, France. In 1980, he
joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology as Professor, and was awarded the G. W. Woodruff Chair 1989. He retired in 2008. His awards include the Georgia Tech Professor of the Year in 1994, the ASA Trent-Crede Medal in 2005, the ASME Per Brüel Gold Medal in 2007, and the ASA Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education in 2010.
Peter H Rogers, pictured with his wife, Alice, received an SB in physics from MIT in 1965 and a PhD from Brown 1970. He worked at the Naval Research Laboratory as a Research Physi- cist and at ONR as Scientific Officer for Underwater Acous-
tics before joining the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1983. He knew nothing whatsoever about Georgia Tech at the time except that Allan Pierce was there. That was more than enough. He became the Rae & Frank H.
Neely Chair in 1993. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and recipient of the Bienniel Award in 1980.
References
Hughes, D., Pierce, A. D., Katz, R. A., and Koch, R. M. (2014). Numerical simulation of sound generation by cicada. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 135, 2266.
Pierce, A. D. (1962a). Electron-Lattice Interaction and the Generalized Born- Oppenheimer Approximation. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Cambridge. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11435.
Pierce, A. D. (1962b). Sound propagation in a triple-layered medium. Jour- nal of the Acoustical Society of America 34, 1990.
Pierce, A. D. (1963). Propagation of acoustic gravity waves from a small source above the ground in an isothermal atmosphere. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 35, 1798-1807.
Pierce, A. D. (1965). Extension of the method of normal modes to sound propagation in an almost stratified medium. Journal of the Acoustical Soci- ety of America 37, 19-27.
Pierce, A. D. (1989). Acoustics: An Introduction to its Physical Principles and Applications. Acoustical Society of America, Woodbridge, NY.
Pierce, A. D., and Berthelot, Y. H. (1988). Validity of linear acoustics for prediction of waveforms caused by sonically moving laser beams. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 83, 913-920.
Pierce, A. D., and Carey W. M. (2010). Sediment shear as a perturbation in geoacoustic inversions and an explanation of the anomalous frequency dependence of the attenuation. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 8, 005001.
Posey, J. W., and Pierce, A. D. (1971). Estimation of nuclear explosion ener- gies from microbarograph records. Nature 232, 253.
WHOI. (2013). Distinguished Colleagues: Allan D. Pierce. Biographical video, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA. Avail- able at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPOvOjRGYY&feature=you tu.be.
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