biography
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Sabine, Wallace Clement (Ware)
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pronunciation:
[sabin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1919)
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| biography:
| Physicist, the founder of architectural acoustics, born in Richwood, Ohio, USA. He studied at Ohio State University, then taught at Harvard, where he worked for the rest of his life. A specialist in the acoustic problems of buildings, by 1898 he had devised the Sabine law, that the reverberation time multiplied by the total absorptivity of the room is proportional to the volume of the room. He advised on the projected new Boston Symphony Hall (1898–1900), and became much in demand to advise on architectural acoustics. |
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