Steve Garrett’s energetic approach to acoustic energy research

Beginning in graduate school under the guidance of Izzy Rudnick and Seth Putterman, and culminating with his solo textbook “Understanding Acoustics: An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration” in 2020, Steve Garrett has enthusiastically spread a very effective approach to understanding and doing physical acoustics. Examples from his energetic research career (and his influence on my own) illustrate his style and the times in which we have lived.