William B. Snow (

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, 16 May 1903 – 5 October 1968) was a sound engineer. He graduated from the

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in 1923 with a B. S. degree in electrical engineering. He worked for

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, where he made major contributions to acoustics from 1923–1940. During the Second World War, he was assistant director of the US Navy's Underwater Sound Laboratory. Snow, a

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of the

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(AES), received its Gold Medal Award in 1968.

References

In memoriam, AES Journal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snow, William B. 1903 births 1968 deaths American acoustical engineers Scientists at Bell Labs Stanford University alumni