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James West
In 1962, James West, current Whiting School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member and Gerhard Sessler revolutionized the field of sound technology when they invented the electrets microphone, found today in everything from cell phones to hearing aids, from children’s toys to the devices astronauts use to communicate from outer space.
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