Jan Frederik Schouten (29 May 1910 – 12 August 1980) was a Dutch physicist, and Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his contributions to biophysics.
[1] After graduations Schouten as researcher started working in industry at Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium led by Gilles Holst.
Schouten demonstrate that the way we perceive a pitch in the most sounds is different from the way Hermann von Helmholtz had proposed, and which had become generally accepted.
He discovered, along with Frank de Jager during the Second World War, that there were great opportunities in the digitalization of the voice signal opened.
With the support of Hendrik Casimir, he founded the Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek (IPO) (Institute for Perception Research) at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in which Philips was a shareholder.