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Journal Article
Cochlear Implants — Science, Serendipity, and Success
2013
Overview
Restoring hearing to people who are too deaf to benefit from hearing aids required an extraordinary, decades-long research endeavor. The 2013 Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award recognizes the contributions of three pioneers of cochlear implantation.
The Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, announced September 9, recognizes the contributions of three pioneers of cochlear implantation: Graeme Clark, Ingeborg Hochmair, and Blake Wilson. Their collective efforts have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who would otherwise be deaf.
Deafness impairs quality of life by relentlessly dismantling the machinery of human communication. Ludwig van Beethoven, plagued by deafness, wrote in 1802, “For me there can be no relaxation in human society; no refined conversations, no mutual confidences. I must live quite alone and may creep into society only as often as sheer necessity demands. . . . Such . . .
