Graeme Clark's life

BIOGRAPHY

This is the page where you can learn about his life

BORN & DIED

born: Camden, NSW on the 6th of August 1935

died: 2013, Age of 78

CHOSEN FIELD OF SCIENCE

.1. Surgery of ears / Melbourne ( 1960s )

.2. Otolaryngologist / University of Melbourne (health career)

.3. Neuroscientist

.4. Speech Scientist

.5. Bio engineer

BACKGROUND

.1. Primary : Camden Primary School

.2. Secondary : Scots College (boarding school )

.3. High : Sydney Boys High

.4. College : University of NSW ( New South Wales )

.5. After Graduate : Otolaryngologist

INSPIRATION / JOURNEY OF HIS LIFE

.1.His deaf father struggles ignited this determination. That is why he was keen to know how ears work.

.2.At the age of ten, he has done a lot of biological experiments in his mother's laundry. He also made a hypodermic syringe in his father's chemist shop and tried to transfer agents, like viruses, from one tomato plant to another.

.3.In the 1960's, he discovered the way a deaf person can hear but couldn't understand any human language. However, in 1967, he started to research the possibility of an artificial ear created by an electric implant. Some of the people thought he was mad and this isn't possible. However, in 1978, the first cochlear implant surgery took place and it was a success!

STUDIES

.1.general surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in

Edinburgh (1962)

.2.Specialized in throat, nose and ear surgery at the Royal

Nose, Throat, Ear Hospital. (1985-2004)

.3.William Gibson chair of otolaryngology at the University of

Melbourne (1970-2004)

THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES HE MADE

.1.The first cochlear implant surgery (1978)

.2.Tested the bionic ears/cochlear implant (1978)

.3.The Bionic Ear Institute (2005)