Robert L. White (1927 – December 10, 2023) was an American professor of electrical engineering, and cochlear implant pioneer.[1]
After becoming an expert in magnetics and a professor at Stanford, White switched to working on cochlear implants. In 1964, he and surgeon Blair Simmons made a six-electrode device directly implanted into the auditory nerve in the modiolus, as opposed to the more modern approach through the scalae of the cochlea. He continued to work with Simmons for decades on developing multi-channel implants of various sorts, and testing them with human subjects.[2]
References
edit- ^ Sanford, John (15 February 2024). "Robert White, expert on magnetics and former chair of electrical engineering, dies at 96". stanford.edu. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Albert Mudry and Mara Mills (May 2013). "The early history of the cochlear implant: a retrospective". JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 139 (5): 446–453. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
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