Background
Harris was born on June 20, 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; the son of Bernard O. Harris and Ida (Moss) Harris.
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of California
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of California
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Washington, D. C., United States
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Harris was born on June 20, 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; the son of Bernard O. Harris and Ida (Moss) Harris.
Harris received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in 1938 and a Master of Science degree in physics in 1940 from the University of California. Also in 1945, he was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in acoustics.
Harris began his career as a research assistant at Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1941. Four years later he took a position of a member staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and held it until 1951.
Also he worked as a consultant on Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, the Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, the three theaters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Symphony Hall (now Abravanel Hall) in Salt Lake City, the renovation of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center and, when he was in his 80s, Benaroya Hall in Seattle.
In addition, he designed the acoustics for Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in the mid-1970s and since that he became a preeminent acoustical engineer in the United States. He was a professor emeritus of architecture and Charles Batchelor professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Columbia University.
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2003Harris was a vice president in 1960-1961 and president from 1964 to 1965 of the Acoustical Society of America. He was an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America between 1959-1971. Also Cyril was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and American Philosophical Society. He served as president in 1993 and chairman of the Board in 1994 of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Cyril Harris was married to Ann Schakne. They have two children.
