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Ask an Acoustician
You can learn about acousticians who work on a whole range of exciting topics in the “Ask an Acoustician” articles in Acoustics Today. Below are links to these articles. In addition, to learn about more acousticians, including one who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his studies of how the human ear works, visit exploresound.org/meet-acousticians.
Whitney Coyle studies the physics of the clarinet. https://acousticstoday.org/coyle
Kent L. Gee is a physicist who studies a wide range of topics including noise created by jets, rockets, and explosions. https://acousticstoday.org/Gee
Sandra Gordon-Salant does research on speech perception in older people. https://acousticstoday.org/Gordon-Salant
Kelsey Hochgraf works as an archi- tectural acoustical consultant, helping design buildings for their occupants’ sound needs. https://acousticstoday.org/hochgraf
Adrian KC Lee researches how the brain responds to sound, especially in noisy settings like parties. https://acousticstoday.org/Lee
Sarah A. Marley focuses her research on bioacoustics and marine soundscapes. https://acousticstoday.org/Marley
Sam H. Ridgway is known as the father of marine mammal medicine and has done pioneering work on marine mammal hearing. https://acousticstoday.org/Ridgway
Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp studies psychoacoustics and noise effects in people’s environments. https://acousticstoday.org/schulte-fortkamp
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