Tamas Tarnoczy

* Hőlak, January 15, 1915 – † Budapest, September 14, 2007 / physicist, acoustician ; ; After World War I, he moved to Budapest with his parents, where he completed his secondary school studies in 1933 and obtained a teaching certificate in mathematics and physics at the University of Szeged. In 1940, he became an assistant professor to Zoltán Bay at the Budapest University of Technology, and in 1943, he received his doctorate in acoustics at the Pázmány Péter University of Science and Technology under the supervision of the later Nobel laureate György Békésy. From then on, he primarily worked on acoustics. In 1949, he established the Acoustics and Ultrasound Research Group within the Central Physics Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His interests focused on speech research. His research results on ultrasound zone lenses, room acoustics, and speech sound are of international importance. He organized several acoustic conferences and an international acoustic congress in Budapest in 1971, which brought together 1,500 experts. He published nearly 450 papers in Hungarian and foreign languages, and was the author, co-author, and editor of 19 books. ; ; His main works: ; Physical Acoustics, 1945, ; Architectural Acoustics, 1948, ; Physical Acoustics, 1963, ; Ultrasounds, 1963, ; Acoustic Design, 1966, ; Musical Acoustics, 1982, ; Sound Pressure – Loudness – Noise, 1984, ; Room Acoustics I-II., 1986, ; Introduction to Musical Acoustics, 1991.