Albert Neville Thiele, OAM (4 December 1920 – 1 October 2012),[1] was an Australian audio engineer.
He was particularly noted for his work on electronic filters and on developing the Thiele/Small parameters for characterising loudspeakers as an aid to loudspeaker cabinet design.
Thiele was educated at Milton State School, Brisbane Grammar School and the Universities of Queensland and Sydney.
After performing on Brisbane radio stations as a boy soprano in the early 1930s, and later as an actor, he became interested in the reproduction and transmission of sound.
[3] After five years of war service in infantry and the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (AEME, subsequently Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) in New Guinea and Bougainville, he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) in 1952.