Historical Biographies in Acoustics: Carleen Maley Hutchins Elle O’Brien Acoustics Today Intern 2018 Carleen Maley Hutchins, winner of the Acoustical Society’s Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics (1981) and an Honorary Fellow of the Society (1998), stands apart in her...
Among the list of the Acoustical Society’s Gold Medalists, there is a recipient whose contributions to the Society are intriguingly summarized: “for fundamental contributions to physical acoustics and biomedical ultrasound and for innovative leadership in electronic...
Historical Biographies in Acoustics: Katherine Safford Harris Elle O’Brien Acoustics Today Intern 2018 Reading through the Acoustical Society of America’s list of honors, Katherine Safford Harris is a notable name: she appears twice, as the winner of the ...
In the first line of Ernest Glen Wever’s final book, The Amphibian Ear, Wever describes his subject (pp.3):“The name Amphibia literally signifies “both lives” and refers to the proclivity of many of these animals for alternating between aquatic and terrestrial...
One of the most exciting things a student learns about the ear is that the cochlea, the snail-shell shaped organ in the inner ear where sound is transduced into an electrical signal carried by the auditory nerve, is arranged very particularly. In humans, high...
