George Oscar Russel (1890, in

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– March 17, 1962) was an American speech scientist. He was a professor at the

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and published an influential book in 1928 called ''The Vowel: Its Physiological Mechanism as Shown by X-Ray''. He was a student of

Ludimar Hermann Ludimar Hermann (October 31, 1838 – June 5, 1914) was a German physiology, physiologist and phonetics, speech scientist who used the Thomas Edison, Edison phonograph to test theories of vowel production, particularly those of Robert Willis ( ...

External links

Biography at "A short history of Speech Pathology in America" site
1890 births 1962 deaths Ohio State University faculty Linguists from the United States {{US-linguist-stub