Everything about Richard Bolt totally explained
Richard Henry Bolt Ph.D., better known as
Richard Bolt or
Dick Bolt, (
Peking,
China,
April 22,
1911-
Boston, Massachusetts,
January 13,
2002) was a
physics professor at
MIT with an interest in
acoustics. He was one of the founders of the company
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, which built the
ARPANET, a forerunner of the
internet.
Early life
Bolt was born in
Peking,
China, where his parents were medical
missionaries. His family returned to the
U.S. in
1916 and settled in
California.
Bolt graduated from
Berkeley High School, California in 1928 and entered the
University of California at Berkeley.
Although he initially expected to major in either music or graphical design, he decided on
architecture, in which he attained a
BA in
1933. At that time, he'd already developed an interest in
acoustics, combining his interests for music, design and architecture.
After his marriage to Katherine Mary Smith, right after his graduation in
1933, they made a honeymoon to Europe, where he became acquainted with a number of scientists from
Berlin, and the honeymoon was extended to ten months while Bolt learned German and studied acoustics.
Berkeley
Returning to Berkeley in
1934, he entered the graduate
physics program, and, earning an
M.A. in
1937 and qualifying for Berkeley's Physics
Ph.D. program, which he completed in 1939. He performed his research at
UCLA, given the fact that Berkeley had no acoustics research facilities at that time. After attaining his PhD in
1939 he worked at
MIT for a year on the transmission of sound in various shapes of rooms. Excluding a brief period at the
University of Illinois and a stationing in
London during
WWII, he remained associated with the MIT until his retirement.
MIT and BBN
Bolt started a consulting firm with another MIT professor,
Leo Beranek, in
1948, and worked on such projects as doing an audio analysis of the
JFK assassination, the "18.5 minute gap" in
Nixon's
White House tapes, and improving the sound in
concert halls. In later years, after the addition of one of his former students,
Robert Newman, the firm of
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, better known as BBN, designed the first
modem in
1963, helping computers communicate with each other. This led to work on the
ARPANET, which became the
Internet. BBN helped develop
e-mail and, in
1971, one of BBN's researchers chose the "
@" sign for e-mail addresses. Bolt retired in
1976.
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