Title:

C. J. LeBel Professor of Engineering

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2013

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

1999

Citation:

"For his leadership and pioneering contributions to the theory of acoustics of speech production and perception, development of mathematical methods of analysis and modeling to study the acoustics of speech production, and establishing the contemporary foundations of speech science."

Presented by President William Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, March 14, 2000.