Gerhard Sessler

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Gerhard Sessler (February 15, 1931-) co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Laboratories in work culminating in 1962. He was born in Rosenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and received his Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen in 1959. After working in the United States until 1975 he returned to academia in Germany. From 1975 up to 2000, he worked as a professor of electrical engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology where he invented the silicon microphone. The recipient of many awards, he is an IEEE fellow and holds over 100 patents.

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