Étienne Lombard

Étienne Lombard (French pronunciation: [etjɛn lɔ̃baʁ]; 1869–1920) was a French otolaryngologist and surgeon who discovered the Lombard effect, in which a person's voice is involuntarily raised when speaking in a loud environment.

Using this device Lombard asked a person to start talking in conversation while hearing noise.

[5] However, in 1910 German publications attributed this discovery to Robert Bárány, which led to a dispute in print between them.

Priority was established when the English physician, Donald Schearer, described how he carried news of the discovery from Paris to Vienna in November 1909.[1]pp.

677–678 Bárány received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1914, for other work.