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Hallowell Davis
Dr. Hallowell Davis was a pioneer in electroencephalography (EEG) and later in research on human hearing. During the 1930s, he was one of the first researchers to use EEG, and it is said that the first ever EEG of a human seen in this country was one from his own brain. He was the first to use a graphic recorder (actually from a telegraph) to record an EEG, at the Harvard Medical School in 1934.
He then researched the neurological mechanisms of hearing, eventually becoming
director of Harvard's Psychoacoustic Laboratory.
In 1946, he moved to St. Louis MO to the Central Institute of the Deaf and simultaneously teach at Washington University.