Former Institute President John Hinton made Honorary Fellow

摘要

John Hinton has been made an Honorary Fellow of the IOA in recognition of his many achievements during his career and his outstanding contribution to the Institute. He received his award from Bridget Shield, current President, at the annual autumn conference in Birmingham. Below is a citation from Andrew Jellyman, a former colleague at Birmingham City Council. John started his career in acoustics in 1974, joining Birmingham City Council's Environmental Protection Unit as Senior Technical Officer (Noise). After being promoted to Special Duties Officer he took day-to-day charge of the acoustics laboratory. John was always keen to improve the laboratory facilities and of particular note is that he initiated regular calibration checks of the entire laboratory's acoustics instrumentation in the 1970s, long before this became standard practice.