Robert Galambos

Robert Carl Galambos (April 20, 1914 – June 18, 2010) was an American neuroscientist whose pioneering research demonstrated how bats use echolocation for navigation purposes, as well as studies on how sound is processed in the brain.

At Harvard, Galambos performed experiments for the military on the relationship between the shock waves from explosions and hearing loss.

Experiments they conducted used methods developed by Hallowell Davis to monitor the brains of bats and their hearing responses as they navigated their way past wires suspended from a laboratory ceiling.

[1] With John S. O'Brien,[3] he co-founded the department of neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and continued his research there after he was required to retire at age 67.

[4] Galambos died at age 96 on June 18, 2010, of congestive heart failure at his home in La Jolla, San Diego, California.