#  In memoriam: Nelson Y.S. Kiang, PhD 

 





March 24, 2023

 

 

 On March 19, Nelson Y.S. Kiang, PhD, the Founding Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories (EPL) and Professor Emeritus of Physiology at HMS, passed away at his Beacon Hill home in Boston, MA.

 Dr. Kiang, aged 93, trained as an experimental psychologist and earned international fame in the 1960s for his pioneering neurophysiological recordings, which systematically described how the inner ear translates sound into patterns of electrical discharge in the fibers of the auditory nerve.

 In 1958, Dr. Kiang partnered with Miss Amelia Peabody, a philanthropist and former Mass Eye and Ear Board Member, to establish the EPL at Mass Eye and Ear. Dr. Kiang served as laboratory director until 1996 and would oversee its rapid growth into the largest research group in the world dedicated to studying hearing and deafness.

 He was a mentor, both formally and informally, to dozens of students and young investigators, who came to know his fierce dedication to scientific rigor and clarity of thought. His passion for education was further realized in 1992, when he spearheaded the creation of a PhD program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology (SHBT), which is now a part of the Division of Medical Sciences at HMS.

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