Harvey Fletcher was an investigator into the nature of speech and hearing, and made contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering, speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education.
24 Facts About Harvey Fletcher
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Harvey Fletcher graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1904.
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Harvey Fletcher enrolled at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1907 with a bachelor's degree.
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Harvey Fletcher was the father of James C Fletcher, former president of the University of Utah and NASA Administrator and of Harvey J Fletcher, a BYU math professor.
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Millikan took sole credit, in return for Harvey Fletcher claiming full authorship on a related result for his dissertation.
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Harvey Fletcher's contributions were detail-oriented but still contributed to the successful experiment, in which he incorporated, among other things, experience with projection lanterns.
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Millikan went on to win the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics, in part for this work, and Harvey Fletcher kept the agreement a secret until his death.
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Harvey Fletcher served in this capacity from 1911 until 1916.
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Harvey Fletcher left BYU to work at Western Electric, establishing himself as a researcher.
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Harvey Fletcher joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories' Engineering Staff Research Department where he found great interest in the physics of sound.
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Harvey Fletcher worked there from 1933 to 1949, when he became a professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University from 1949 to 1952.
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Harvey Fletcher returned to BYU in 1952 to be the Director of Research.
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Harvey Fletcher served in that role as well as being the first dean of the new College of Physics and Engineering Sciences until 1958.
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Harvey Fletcher showed that speech features are usually spread over a wide frequency range, and developed the articulation index to approximately quantify the quality of a speech channel.
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Harvey Fletcher developed the concepts of equal-loudness contours, loudness scaling and summation, and the critical band.
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Harvey Fletcher was elected an honorary fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1949, the second person to receive this honor after Thomas Edison, 20 years earlier.
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Harvey Fletcher was president of the American Society for Hard of Hearing, an honorary member of the American Otological Society and an honorary member of the Audio Engineering Society.
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Harvey Fletcher was the first president of Acoustical Society of America.
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Harvey Fletcher was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Harvey Fletcher was a member of the National Hearing Division Committee of Medical Sciences.
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Harvey Fletcher was given the Progress Medal Award by the American Academy of Motion Pictures, in Hollywood.
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In 2010, Fletcher was honored by BYU as the founding dean of its College of Engineering.
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Harvey Fletcher was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Harvey Fletcher died on July 23,1981, after a stroke.