About William F. Fry
Lived 1921 – 2011 (aged 89–90). William F. Fry was an American physicist, acoustician, university teacher and philanthropist.
William Frederick "Jack" Fry (6 December 1921 – 18 July 2011) was an American experimental physicist. Besides physics, he worked on violin acoustics for several decades, and collected books and manuscripts on Italian history.
Early life and education William F. Fry was born in 1921 on a farm near Carlisle, Iowa. In his childhood, Fry became interested in radios and music. He got his first violin and took private lessons. Several years later he participated in a music competition, and started to give private violin lessons for 25 cents per hour.
Fry first travelled to Italy in 1954. He won a Fulbright lectureship and spent time in Padova and Milan. There, he became interested in the origins of Fascism in Italy, but soon expanded his interests to earlier Italian history and culture:
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Who was William F. Fry?
American acoustician
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William F. Fry was born in 1921 in Carlisle.
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William F. Fry died in 2011 in Madison.
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William F. Fry was a physicist, acoustician, university teacher and philanthropist.
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William F. Fry was American.
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