Acoustical Society
DOI: 10.1063/1.3051711
Cyril M. Harris of Columbia University has succeeded C. Paul Boner as president of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Harris has been a member of the Columbia faculty and director of its Acoustics Laboratory since 1952, and on the first of this month assumed a joint appointment as professor of electrical engineering and architecture. Awarded his PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945, he served on the staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories before coming to Columbia. Dr. Harris is an associate editor of the Acoustical Society’s Journal, and is currently an acoustical consultant to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and to the new Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
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