Nelson Kiang

Nelson Yuan-Sheng Kiang is founder and former director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and professor emeritus of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School and also professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also emeritus in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Kiang is an honorary or advisory professor at four Chinese universities and advises people in five ministries in China. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955, and an honorary M.D. from the University of Geneva. In 1992 he founded the Speech and Hearing Sciences Program (now Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program) which he directed until he retired. His former student, M. Charles Liberman, replaced him as director of Eaton-Peabody Laboratory. His present interests are in world health and world education.