Where are all of the Giants in Audiology and Hearing Science?

2/13/2011
Where are all of the Giants in
Audiology and Hearing Science?
Historical vignettes
Marty Lenhardt VCU
VCU School of Engineering
Peter N. Pastore, MD
Georg von Bekesy
Stanley Smith Stevens
Hallowell Davis
1961
Our only Nobel Laureate
Hearing: Its Psychology and Physiology, 1938
S. Stevens and H. Davis
Princeton Applied Research
evoked response audiometer
Bob Galambos, Ph.D., M. D.
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Ira Hirsh
Drs. Harvey Fletcher and W. A. Munson
My first textbook; still in my library.
First president of ASA
"Loudness, its definition, measurement and calculation" in Journal of the Acoustic Society of America[
Nelson Yuan-Sheng Kiang
Edmond P. Fowler
audiometer
ABLB
Western Electric A-1
Western Electric hearing aid
• First to use vacuum tubes
• First model delivered to
Thomas A. Edison
.
1922
Ernest Glen Wever
1936
1956
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Joe Zwislocki
Juergen Tonndorf, 75, Professor of Medicine
Published: November 07, 1989
Dr. Juergen Tonndorf, a professor emeritus of otolaryngology at the Columbia
University College of Physicians & Surgeons, died of kidney failure on Friday at his
home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He was 75 years old.
Dr. Tonndorf joined Columbia in 1962 as a professor of ear, nose and throat studies
and became director of research and training in the specialty. He retired in 1982.
Dr. Tonndorf was born in Gottingen, Germany, and came here after World War II. In
1953, he moved from Texas, where he had performed research at Randolph Air Force
Base, to become an assistant research professor at the University of Iowa.
Juergen Tonndorf: The last great hearing
scientist/otologist (A)
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 88, Issue S1, pp. S122-S123
(November 1990)
first von Bekesy Medal by the Acoustical Society in 1985
Tonndorf Audiometer
“First time I saw New York was through a periscope.”
Henning Edgar von Gierke
Doktor of Engineering in 1944 from the Technical University, Karlsruhe.
William G. Hardy
Miriam Pauls Hardy 1943
Harriet Haskins
Naval Hospital Phil to Hopkins
“Audiology” used in 1946
Galvanic Skin Response GSR
Hearing Conservation
Hopkins audiometers
Bioeffects of Noise
Auditory imperception
Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Department of Defense
Distinguished Civilian Service award, and in 1981 he was awarded the
Distinguished Executive Award by the president Ronald Reagan.
Carhart
Myklebust
Raymond Carhart, 1943
tone decay, 1957
Ph.D. 1936 Speech Science
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Peter Dallos
Professor of Audiology, Neuroscience,
Biomedical Engineering
John Gaeth
Ph.D. Northwestern
Mentor: Raymond Carhart
3 Hungarians
Phonological Regression
Professor of Audiology
Wayne State
Precise masking
1948
Chuck Berlin
Jim Jerger
Roy Sullivan
SISI, 1959
creating giants
new field
then
• When is it over?
• Hal Davis (~1980):
The time for amateur hearing scientists is past.
now
The lone wolf will get few sheep.
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