1. Erwin Hochmair co-created the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world.
10 Facts About Ingeborg Hochmair
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Ingeborg Hochmair received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her contributions towards the development of the modern cochlear implant.
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Ingeborg Hochmair's mother was a physicist and her father was dean of the faculty of mechanical engineering at Vienna University of Technology.
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Ingeborg Hochmair's grandmother was one of the first female chemical engineers in Austria.
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Ingeborg Hochmair commenced her studies at Technical University of Vienna in electrical engineering in 1971, and in 1975, she became the first woman in Austria to receive a PhD in electrical engineering.
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Ingeborg Hochmair worked at Stanford University's Institute for Electronics in Medicine as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1979.
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In 1989, Ingeborg Hochmair co-founded the hearing implant company MED-EL, along with husband Erwin Ingeborg Hochmair.
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Outside of MED-EL, Ingeborg Hochmair continues to support research in the field of science and technology.
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Ingeborg Hochmair has over 40 patents to her name, all of which are for components of her cochlear implant.
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Ingeborg Hochmair is married to her husband and business partner, Erwin Ingeborg Hochmair.