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Volume 6, Number 4, December, 1998 - Noise News International

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entry in the 1999 Student Paper Prize Competition may be obtained<br />

from the address above .<br />

<strong>International</strong>lNCE<br />

The Technical Programme Manager of the Standards Department<br />

of the <strong>International</strong> Organization for Standardization<br />

(ISO), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, has informed the<br />

management of<strong>International</strong> INCE that Category A liaison has<br />

been establi shed between Sub-committee I (<strong>Noise</strong>) of ISO<br />

Technical Committee 43 (Acoustics) and <strong>International</strong> INeE.<br />

The secretariat ofISOrrC 43/SC I is held by Danish Standards<br />

and managed by Leif Nielsen.<br />

According to the Directives of the <strong>International</strong> Organization<br />

for Standardization, a Category A liaison between a technical<br />

committee or sub-committee and other international or<br />

broadly based regional organizations working or interested in<br />

similar or related field s means that the liaison must work in both<br />

directions, and that the organization (<strong>International</strong> INCE in this<br />

case) must make an effective contribution to the work of the<br />

technical committee or subcommittee.<br />

William W. Lang , president of <strong>International</strong> INCE said that<br />

"this new liaison will be valuable for both organizations, and<br />

will provide the ISO with a new mean s of informing societies<br />

and individuals around the world of standards activities related<br />

to noise and its control."<br />

Robert O. Fehr<br />

1911-<strong>1998</strong><br />

Robert O. Fehr, an initial member ofthe Institute of<br />

<strong>Noise</strong> Control Engineering, passed away on <strong>1998</strong><br />

July 07. He was a Board Certified memberofINCE<br />

through 1994.<br />

He was educated at the Swiss Federal Institute<br />

ofTechnology in ZUrich, Switzerland - receiving<br />

a Dipl.Ing. in 1935 and a Dr.sc.tech. in 1941. Until<br />

1961, he was with the General Electric Company<br />

Research and Development Center in<br />

Schenectady, New York, USA where he served as<br />

manager ofthe vibration and acoustics section and<br />

manager of the mechanical engineering laboratory.<br />

He was the initiator of noise seminars at the<br />

laboratory. He taught noise control at Cornell University<br />

from 1961 to 1964. He was a vice president<br />

of Branson Instruments, Inc., and a consulting engineer<br />

at Fehr and Fiske beginning in 1967 where<br />

he served as president.<br />

He served a number of governmental organizations,<br />

including a NASA Committee on Aircraft<br />

<strong>Noise</strong>, the Department of Defense , and the Federal<br />

Aviation Admini stration. He also served on the<br />

Committee on Hearing and Bioacou stics of the National<br />

Research Council. He was also active in international<br />

standards, particularly the <strong>International</strong><br />

Electrotechnical Commission. From 1969 until<br />

1991, he was the editor of the Journal a/the Audio<br />

Engineering Society; a period of great growth in<br />

both the membership of the Society and JAES. He<br />

was also a member ofthe American Society of Mechanical<br />

Engineers.<br />

Sir James Lighthill<br />

1924-<strong>1998</strong><br />

Sir James Lighthill, best known to acousticians as<br />

the researcher who first understood how turbulence<br />

can be a source of sound and who derived the 8th<br />

power relationship between sound generation by<br />

turbulence and Mach number, passed away on <strong>1998</strong><br />

July 17 while attempting to complete a swim<br />

around a Channel Island.<br />

Sir James was on vacation with his family on<br />

the Isle ofSark, a small island between Jersey and<br />

Guernsey in the English Channel. He was attempting,<br />

at age 74, to swim around the entire island<br />

(nine miles). In 1973, he used his knowledge<br />

of tluid dynamics to find the best route aro und the<br />

island in the face of strong tides, and is believed<br />

to be the first person to complete the swim. He is<br />

said to have remarked that the swim was "a most<br />

pleasant way to see the scenery." It is also believed<br />

that he made the swim on at least six other<br />

occasions.<br />

Sir James Lighthill had an outstanding career<br />

during which he contributed to a very wide variety<br />

ofmathematical problems in tluid mechanics,<br />

including supersonic and hypersonic flow, ocean<br />

waves, waves in the atmosphere, astrophysics,<br />

and other related subjects. He was associated<br />

with many well-known institutions in the United<br />

Kingdom, including Cambridge University, the<br />

National Physical Laboratory, the Royal Aircraft<br />

Establishment, and Imperial College, London.<br />

He was knighted in 1971 and held 24 honorary<br />

doctorates.<br />

<strong>1998</strong> <strong>December</strong> <strong>Noise</strong>l<strong>News</strong> <strong>International</strong> 229

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