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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

SIMMONS, Francis Blair (1930 – 1998)

1930 – 1998

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1965 CE

#7233

Auditory nerve.

SIMMONS, Francis Blair (1930 – 1998)

Describes the first "chronically" implanted or permanent cochlear implant. With John M. Epley of Stanford; Robert C. Lummis, Newman Guttman, Lawrence C. Frishkopf of Bell Telephone Laboratories; and Leon D. Harmon and…

1966 CE

#7234

Electrical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve in Man.

SIMMONS, Francis Blair (1930 – 1998)

This detailed psychophysical and electrophysiological analysis of one patient proved that a cochlear implant provided sufficient information to the central nervous system for the understanding of speech.