Abstract
The only Nobel Prize awarded specifically in acoustics was that to Georg von Bekesy in 1962 in medicine and physiology for his work on the ear, but there are at least ten other winners who did significant work in acoustics. The most famous and prolific of these was, of course, Lord Rayleigh, but the others include Pierre Curie (piezoelectricity), Peter Debye (the ultrasonic beam as a diffraction grating), C. V. Raman (mathematical analysis of the Debye–Sears effect), Albert Einstein (velocity dispersion of sound in gaseous mixtures), and Lev Landau (sound absorption in liquid helium). Their acoustical work and that of a number of other Nobel laureates will be discussed.
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