In Memoriam: Renowned Yale acoustical engineer Robert E. Apfel.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-12 August 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: In Memoriam: Renowned Yale acoustical engineer Robert E. Apfel (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08122002 New Haven, Conn. -- Robert E. Apfel, The Robert E. Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale, died on August 1 at age 59.

A Yale professor for over three decades, Apfel had been the chair of the former Council of Engineering, comprising the Departments of Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics. He was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Apfel developed an interest in acoustics at Tufts University, where he graduated Magna cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and earned his Phi Beta Kappa pin. In his senior thesis project, he...