Ira Dyer
Ira Dyer · Science & Medicine
Ocean acoustician known for research on underwater sound and ocean acoustics
1925, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2016, Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Dyer was an ocean acoustician who headed MIT's department of ocean engineering and made lasting contributions to underwater sound, ocean ambient noise, structural acoustics and reverberation, and led pioneering Arctic acoustic field programs. His clarity as a teacher shaped a generation of acousticians. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family whose parents had fled the Pale of Settlement, he later helped resettle Soviet Jewish refugees.
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Ocean acoustician known for research on underwater sound and ocean acoustics
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