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German physiologist and speech scientist

Ludimar Hermann (October 31, 1838 – June 5, 1914) was a German physiologist and speech scientist who used the Edisonphonograph to test theories of vowel production, particularly those of Robert Willis and Charles Wheatstone.

He coined the word formant, a term of importance in modern acoustic phonetics. The Hermann grid is named after him; he was the first to report the illusion in scientific literature.

Physiology research

Hermann was born in Berlin.

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He was an academic lecturer of physics, an inventor, a founder and the manager of a company for electric devices, which employed more than 1, employees.

In addition to his work in phonetics, he was influential as a physiologist. He opposed the notion, propounded by Emil du Bois-Reymond, that muscles contained an ordered series of "electromotive molecules" in favor of a theory of chemical activity.^[1] Hermann showed that the entire surface of an uninjured muscle was electrically equipotential.

His discoveries in this field were instrumental to the modern use of the electrocardiograph as a diagnostic t