Wallace Clement Sabine

Wallace Clement Sabine (* June 13, 1868; † January 10, 1919 ) was an American physicist and pioneer in the field of room acoustics.

Sabine studied at Ohio State University and graduated in 1886 with only 18 years of his studies. Subsequently, he began graduate studies at Harvard University, but never did his Ph.D. Nevertheless, he was a physics professor at Harvard. Since it was unhappy with the acoustics of a new Lyceum there, Sabine was commissioned to investigate the. He developed it from 1910 to 1915 basics of room acoustics. He also founded the Riverbank Acoustics Laboratory in Geneva (Illinois ), which was later expanded by his distant cousin Paul Sabine to become a leading acoustics laboratory. He calculated the acoustics of Symphony Hall in Boston, and the Fogg Lecture Hall.

Wallace Clement Sabine the first to develop parameters for the reverberation time, absorption and sound transmission in buildings. The Sabine'sche equation for the reverberation time is one of the most important tools for the quantitative description of the acoustics of a room. It reads:

In which

Writings

• Collected Papers on Acoustics Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923