Ernst Julius Richard Ewald

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Ernst Julius Richard Ewald (born February 14, 1855 in Berlin , † July 22, 1921 in Konstanz ) was a German physiologist .

Ewald was a member of the Leopoldina from 1892 and a professor in Strasbourg from 1900.

He worked in the fields of respiratory and circulatory physiology. In 1899 he founded the sound image theory of hearing.

His brother is the internist Carl Anton Ewald .

Works

  • The normal respiratory pressure and its curves
  • A new way to measure pressure in your lungs
  • Are the lungs airtight? (with Rudolf Kobert )
  • On the behavior of the mammalian heart when air is blown into it
  • The consequences of operations on the cerebrum on animals without labyrinths
  • The dog with a shortened spinal cord
  • Physiological studies on the terminal organ of the octavus nerve (1892)
  • The physiology of the larynx (1896)
  • On the physiology of the labyrinth
  • A new hearing theory (1899).
  • Ewald, JR (1922): Sound image theory and epistemology . Z. Sensory Physiology. 53, 213-217.

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