Name David Kemp Role Physicist | Education University of Sydney | |
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Books Immaculate Contraptions: Relics and Reconstructions from the Last Machine Age by David Kemp : 15th October 1984-31st March 1985 | ||
David Thomas Kemp (born 24 February 1945) FRS is a Professor working at the UCL Ear Institute.
He was educated at King's College London (BSc, 1966; AKC; PhD, 1970). He discovered the phenomenon of otoacoustic emission in July 1978 while working at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. He founded a company that makes equipment to test for hearing defects by detecting otacoustic emission, which is absent in the ears of people suffering deafness caused by neural impairment. Because the method does not require any cooperation from the subject, it is valuable for detecting deafness in babies.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.
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