Ira Hirsh
Ira Hirsh · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist and pioneer of psychoacoustics
1922, New York City, United States — 2010, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
United States
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Ira Hirsh was an American psychologist and one of the founders of modern audiology, whose research on hearing, speech perception and psychoacoustics reshaped audiometry and deaf education. He was a distinguished professor at Washington University in St. Louis and president of the Acoustical Society of America. He was born to a Jewish family in New York.
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Psychologist and pioneer of psychoacoustics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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