Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA) (German society for acoustics) was established 1988 to promote research and application of acoustics

Acoustics

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

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DEGA is a member of
European Acoustics Association (EAA),
International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and
International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE).
It has about 1 400 members (2008).

Helmholtz-Medaille

• 1991 Eberhard Zwicker
  Eberhard Zwicker
  Karl Eberhard Zwicker was a German acoustics scientist and full professor at the Technical University Munich....
  
   (posthum)
• 1993 Gerhard M. Sessler
• 1994 Wolfgang Kraak
• 1995 Manfred R. Schroeder
  Manfred R. Schroeder
  Manfred Robert Schröder was a German physicist, most known for his contributions to acoustics and computer graphics. He wrote three books and published over 150 articles in his field....
  
  
• 1996 Heinrich Kuttruff
• 1997 Fridolin P. Mechel
• 1998 Manfred Heckl (posthum)
• 1999 Helmut A. Müller
• 2000 Arno Lenk
• 2001 Jens Blauert
  Jens Blauert
  Jens Blauert is a German scientist specializing in psycho-acoustics and an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics...
  
  
• 2002 Karl Gösele
• 2003 Wolfgang Eisenmenger
• 2004 Jürgen Meyer
• 2005 Volker Mellert
• 2006 Ernst Terhardt
• 2007 Werner Schirmer
• 2008 Frank J. Fahy