Abstract:

Paul had a deep and continuing interest in controlling ennviromental noise. He was instrumental in organizing one of the earliest symposium on urban noise. His ``City Noise---Los Angeles'' paper in Noise Control Magazine in July 1956 is filled with prophetic comments on urban noise and its potential effect on people. Paul was a guiding influence on the development of a Model City Noise Ordinance commissioned by the Department of Health of the State of California. Paul not only reported on enviromental noise but was actively engaged in solving noise problems. His work on the development of a ground run-up suppressor system design for the Northrop F-89 aircraft is a text book example of defining, understanding, and the developing methods to reduce enviromental noise from a very high-level noise source.