Pioneers

It is the idea to present portraits of famous pioneers in the field of speech communication research. Possible candidates are:

• William Holder (1616 - 1698)
• Samuel Reyher (1635 - 1714)
• Antoine Ferrein (1693 – 1769)
• Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1723 - 1795)
• Erasmus Darwin (1731 –1802)
• Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734 - 1804)
• Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787 - 1869)
• Ernst Chladni (1756 – 1827) 
• Robert Willis (1800 – 1875)
• Johannes Müller (1801 – 1858)
• Karl Verner (1801 – 1858)
• Charles Wheatstone (1802 - 1875)
• Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809 - 1877)
• Ernst Brücke (1819 – 1892)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894)
• Johan Nepomuk Czermak (1828 – 1873)
• Thomas Oakley Coles (1845 - 1906)
• Henry Sweet (1845 - 1912)
• Abbé Jean-Pierre Rousselot (1846 - 1924)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
• Hugo Pipping (1864 - 1944)
• Ernest Richard Edwards (1871 – 1947)
• Théodore Rosset (1877 - 1961)
• Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878 - 1966)
• Daniel Jones (1881 - 1967)
• Edward Wheeler Scripture (1864 - 1945)
• Paul Menzerath (1883 - 1954)
• Louise Kaiser (1891 - 1973)
• Armando de Lacerda (1902 - 1984)
• Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913 - 1960)
• Gunnar Fant (1919 - 2009)
• Ilse Lehiste (1922 - 2010)
• Peter Ladefoged (1925 - 2006)
• Anne Cutler (1945 - 2022)