Ichiji Tasaki

[5] After World War II, Tasaki's research took him to England and to Switzerland, where he further studied the properties of nerve fibers.

While there, Tasaki and his colleagues demonstrated how vibrations that occur in the cochlea in response to sound are translated into electrical signals that the brain can interpret.

[6] This effort led to the development of the field of audiology, indirectly providing the basis for diagnosing and treating many hearing disorders.

At the time of his death, he was on detail to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

[7][8][9] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Institute of Mental Health.