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K. UNO INGARD
Pages 153-160

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From page 154...
... In addition to his academic training, he learned from his father, a skilled mechanic in the shipbuilding industry, the great value of being able to do fine toolwork with his hands using simple tools, a skill so important to the experimentalist.
From page 155...
... His principal mentor was Olof Rydbeck, who had a doctorate in applied physics from Harvard and later achieved considerable renown for work in radar astronomy. Although Uno had acquired considerable experimentally relevant skills from his father, he was inclined toward theory, but through Rydbeck he was put on experimental projects as well, and his interests broadened to a combination of experiments and theory.
From page 156...
... However, he wanted to receive a high-quality advancedgraduate-level education and decided to seek a doctorate at MIT. He was attracted to MIT partly because, as a follow-up to World War II research activities, it had established a relatively large research laboratory in acoustics and partly because of two books he had studied that were written by MIT physics professor Philip McCord Morse.
From page 157...
... Uno also supervised the doctoral theses of about 50 students; many of these concerned acoustical topics, and others were related to instabilities and waves in weakly ionized gases. Except for two sabbatical stints in Stockholm and Berlin, he remained on the MIT faculty for 39 years, as a professor of physics and of aeronautics and astronautics.
From page 158...
... He extensively interacted with Dupont, Pratt and Whitney, United Technologies, Industrial Acoustics Company, Stahl Laval Turbine AB, and Mitco Corporation. His consulting activities in noise control resulted in important contributions to duct acoustics, the theory of fan noise in ducts, jet engine noise, jet engine silencers, sound absorptive materials, and sound absorptive structures.
From page 159...
... His many papers and books will long continue to be consulted and cited, and those who knew him will cherish their memories of conversations with him and of his excellent lectures. Uno is survived by his loving wife, Doris; children John (Anne)


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