Biography
An only child, Dallos was born in 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He attended the Technical University of Budapest from 1953 to 1956, majoring in electrical engineering. After participating in the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, he escaped and immigrated to the United States. He finished his undergraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1958), followed by MS (1959) and Ph.D (1962) degrees from Northwestern University. He was one of the first doctoral students to specialize in biomedical engineering (adviser R.W. Jones) under the aegis of the Electrical Engineering department. His thesis work on modeling predictive eye movements is still being cited... Upon completing his degree, he accepted a position with Raymond Carhart in Audiology at Northwestern and became a full professor seven years later. His entire faculty career, which spanned fifty years, was at Northwestern University. In 1977-78 he spent a sabbatical year at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, working with Åke Flock. In 1991 he was recruited to be the founding chair of the new Department of Neurobiology and Physiology. Later he served terms as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Vice President for Research. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Auditory Neuroscience (1994–97), served on the Council of Neurology Institute of the NIH (1984–87) and was President of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO; 1992–93), while also serving on numerous other advisory committees and boards and holding various editorships.Research
Early work pertained to elucidating the properties and modeling of the acoustic reflex and some excursions into psychophysics. By 1965 he established the Auditory Physiology Laboratory where he and some seventy doctoral students, postdocs and colleagues have produced a body of work that can be characterized in various categories. .1Contemporary interpretation of the origin and properties of gross electrical responses of the cochlea and auditory nerve. This work forms the basis of present-day measurements and understanding of compound electrical responses of the auditory periphery. The work was summarized in the 1973 monograph: The Auditory Periphery. .2Discovery of fractional subharmonics in cochlear mechanics, including the first report on chaotic behavior in a biological system, as well as the first demonstration of a form of otoacoustic emissions. .3First physiological demonstration that cochlear distortion is related to hair cell transduction . .4First explanation of what determines low-frequency auditory threshold .5Discovery that inner hair cells respond to basilar membrane velocity .6Demonstration that in the absence of outer hair cells there is a significant threshold shift, change in frequency selectivity, and linearization of the cochlea. This experimental series forms the basis of much of our current concepts of cochlear function, notably 50-60 dB amplification by outer hair cells .7First intracellular recordings from outer hair cells in vivo; first intracellular recordings from hair cells in the low-frequency regions of the cochlea .8First recordings from auditory nerve terminals in vivo .9Experimental series establishing many properties of electromotility of isolated outer hair cells, including the proof that stereocilia displacement produces outer hair cell motility .10Invention and development of the hemicochlea technique and intracellular recordings from hair cells in the hemicochlea under basilar membrane stimulation .11Discovery that outer hair cell axial stiffness is voltage dependentSelected awards
*John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1977-1978 *National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, 1984-1989 *Sculpting
He has been making welded steel sculptures since 1998 and has been a professional sculptor since his retirement from his professorship in 2012. Has had solo shows in Chicago and New York commercial galleries and participated in numerous juried group shows. Had a solo show at the Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis and had his work in small-group shows at the Ukrainian Museum of Art, Chicago and the Hamilton Gallery of Montreat College, NC. His War Series of nine sculptures are in the permanent collection of the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC.References
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