- Richard H. Small
Richard H. Small (*
1935 ) is an Americanscientist , who worked mainly onelectroacoustics . TheThiele/Small parameters are named after him.Career
Small was born in
San Diego ,California . His father was an amateur pianist. Having a keen interest in electronics he built the amplifiers to drive the speakers in his parents house. His father built various enclosures for the loudspeakers, following the trends of the times. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from theCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1956 and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He gained experience in electronic circuit design for high-performance analytical instruments at theBell & Howell Research Center in California from 1958 to 1964. After a working visit to Japan in 1964, he moved to Australia, where he got a part-time job at theUniversity of Sydney as a teaching assistant in the electronics lab. He became interested in loudspeaker analysis and measurement and metA. N. Thiele who was lecturing at the university. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1972. He taught for a number of years at that university, but returned to industry in 1986 as Head of Research atKEF Electronics Ltd. inMaidstone ,England until 1993. He then joined Harman International based in their Martinsville, Indiana, USA facility.References
[http://www.audioxpress.com/magsdirx/voxcoil/addenda/media/mowry-small-int.pdf Voice Coil Interviews Richard H. Small]
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