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Paul Earls Sabine (22 January 1879 – 28 December 1958) was an American acoustic engineer and a specialist on acoustic architecture. Sound absorbing boards made of porous gypsum was sometimes known by the tradename Sabinite. He was a director at the Riverbank Laboratories until his retirement in 1947.

Sabine was born in Albion, Illinois, to Methodist pastor Charles and Rebecca Likely née McClure.[1] He was educated at McKendree College (1899) before going to Harvard University from where he received a doctorate in 1915. He taught physics for a while and in 1919 he replaced his cousin Wallace Clement Sabine (who died from cancer) as director of the Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories (which later became a part of the Illinois Institute of Technology). He developed the work of his cousin and specialized in acoustic architecture and was a consultant for architects and involved in the design of the Radio City Music Hall, New York; Fels Planetarium, Philadelphia; and the House and Senate Chambers. He established relationships between total sound absorption,[2] reverberation and the absorptive properties of materials while also innovating measurement,[3] standards, and absorptive materials.[4][5][6][7][8] A porous gypsum plaster to line walls and meant to absorb sounds was developed in 1924 by the Keasbey Mattison laboratories and marketed as Sabinite.[9] During World War II he worked at the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. After his retirement in 1947 he moved to Colorado Springs and spent a lot of time on Christianity and its relationship to science which he wrote about in Atoms, Men and God (1953). He published the landmark book Acoustics and Architecture (1932).[10] His son Hale Johnson Sabine (1909-1981) also became an acoustics specialist.[11][12]

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  1. ^ Harvard College. Class of 1903. 1913. pp. 439–440.
  2. ^ Sabine., Paul E. (1920). "The Absorption of Sound by Rigid Walls". Physical Review. 16 (6): 514–518. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.16.514. ISSN 0031-899X.
  3. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1929). "The measurement of sound absorption coefficients". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 207 (3): 341–368. doi:10.1016/S0016-0032(29)91450-2.
  4. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1929). "The measurement of sound absorption coefficients". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 207 (3): 341–368. doi:10.1016/S0016-0032(29)91450-2.
  5. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1935). "What is Measured in Sound Absorption Measurements". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 6 (4): 239–245. doi:10.1121/1.1915742. ISSN 0001-4966.
  6. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1938). "Effects of Cylindrical Pillars in a Reverberation Chamber". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 10 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1121/1.1915949. ISSN 0001-4966.
  7. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1944). "The Problem of Industrial Noise". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 34 (3): 265–270. doi:10.2105/AJPH.34.3.265. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1626184. PMID 18015962.
  8. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1922). "Diffraction Effects in Sound Absorption Measurements". Physical Review. 19 (4): 402. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.19.402. ISSN 0031-899X.
  9. ^ Amber sound absorbing plaster. Keasbey & Mattison Co. 1930. p. 8.
  10. ^ Moyer, David L. (2001). "Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109 (5): 2328. doi:10.1121/1.4744170. ISSN 0001-4966.
  11. ^ Sabine, Paul E. (1936). "The Beginnings of Architectural Acoustics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 7 (4): 242–248. doi:10.1121/1.1915836. ISSN 0001-4966.
  12. ^ "Paul E. Sabine". Physics Today. 12 (2): 60. 1959. doi:10.1063/1.3060694. ISSN 0031-9228.
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