Amar Bose

Amar Bose

male, 80 years old
Amar Gopal Bose is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. A Bengali Indian American electrical engineer, he was listed on the 2006 Forbes...
Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged

male, deceased (2006)
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered...
Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne

male, deceased (1648)
Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or "le Père Mersenne" was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as t...
Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

male, deceased (1916)
Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known...

Ronald W. Schafer

male
Ronald Schafer (born February 17, 1938 in Tecumseh, Nebraska) is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing....
Theobald Boehm

Theobald Boehm

male, deceased (1881)
Theobald Boehm (April 9, 1794- November 25, 1881) was a Bavarian inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute and its improved fingering...
Willem Mengelberg

Willem Mengelberg

male, deceased (1951)
Joseph Willem Mengelberg (28 March 1871 - 22 March 1951) was a Dutch conductor. Mengelberg was born fourth of sixteen children to German born...
Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher

female, 66 years old
Maryanne Amacher (born February 25, 1943) is an American composer of sound installations. Amacher studied composition with George Rochberg and...
Rudolph Koenig

Rudolph Koenig

male, deceased (1901)
Karl Rudolph Koenig, known by himself and others as Rudolph Koenig, was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. Koenig was...

Joseph Sauveur

male, deceased (1716)
Joseph Sauveur was a French mathematician and physicist. He was a professor of mathematics and in 1696 became a member of the French Academy of...