Sidney Lees

Background

Lees, Sidney was born on April 17, 1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles K. and Bess Rose (Segal) Lees.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, College City New York, 1938; S.M. Entertainment, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1948; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1950.

Career

Observer, United States Weather Bureau, 1938-1940; meteorological instrument engineer, United States Signal Corps, 1940-1943; research associate, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1947-1950; assistant professor aero department, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1950-1957; construction engineering, 1957-1962; professor engineering, Thayer School, Dartmouth, 1962-1966; head bioengineering department, senior member of staff, Forsyth Institute Research and Advanced Study, Boston, since 1966; honorary research associate department medical biophysics, U. Manchester, England, since 1990. Adjunct Professor Northeastern U., 1980. Visiting scientist U. Amsterdam, 1975.

Chairman Joint Automatic Control Conference, 1965, Research Conference on Instrumentation Science, 1971, Conference on Ultrasonics in Bioengring. and Biophysics, 1978, International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, 1997.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow Acoustical Society of America (emeritus). Member American Physical Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (chairman region I since 1980), Sigma Xi (president Dartmouth chapter 1964-1965).

Connections

Married Marjorie Berman, September 17, 1947. Children– David E.B., P. Andrew, Eliot Jay.

Father:

Charles K. Lees

Mother:

Bess Rose (Segal) Lees

Spouse:

Marjorie Berman

child:

Eliot Jay Lees

child:

P. Andrew Lees

child:

David E.B. Lees