Harvey Fletcher
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Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist. Known as the "father of stereophonic sound", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early electronic hearing aid.
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Leo BeranekAlso won IEEE Founders Medal
David B. SteinmanAlso won Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute
Robert A. FroschAlso won IEEE Founders MedalDiana DeutschAlso won Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
George ZweigAlso won Fellow of the Acoustical Society of AmericaAbout this person
Harvey Fletcher was an American physicist. Known as the "father of stereophonic sound", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early electronic hearing aid. He was an investigator into the nature of speech and hearing, and made contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering, speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education. Following his death, he was credited with collaborating with his doctoral advisor, Robert Millikan, on the Nobel-prize winning oil drop experiment which first determined the charge of the electron.
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