Obituary: Professor Dr. rer. nat. Manfred Heckl 15 July 1930–16 August 1996
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 196
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-460X
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✦ Synopsis
Because he had so many friends among colleagues concerned with sound and vibration, many readers will know before they read this tribute that Professor Manfred Heckl died on Friday 16 August 1996. His death was untimely but it was typical of him that despite his illness in the last year of his life his contributions to our knowledge never slackened. In the Book Reviews section of this issue of Journal of Sound and Vibration, Bjo¨rn Petersson has provided a review (written before Manfred's death) of the third edition of ''Ko¨rperschall'', the book by the late Professor Lothar Cremer and Manfred, known by English speakers in its previous editions as ''Structure-borne Sound'' (translated by Eric Ungar). This book immediately became a ''classic'' in its first edition (both German and English versions), and again a ''classic'' in its second edition, and Professor Petersson tells us that this third edition is even more ''classic'' than the first two. In his last years, Manfred, in the absence of his co-author, devoted himself to producing this latest classic. Of course this was in addition to continuing his many regular contributions to our knowledge of sound and vibration, and his many services to the journals and societies disseminating and promoting the acquisition of this knowledge. Although, sadly, he will no longer be among us in person, he has left us a most valuable permanent legacy. To those of us privileged to know him, he has left an additional legacy: our affectionate memories of him as the strong, good and kind person he always was.