Lloyd A. Jeffress, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lloyd A. Jeffress

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1900

Place of Birth: San Jose, California, United States

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1986

Profession: physicist, psychologist, biophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Lloyd Alexander Jeffress (November 15, 1900 – April 2, 1986) was an acoustical scientist, a professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, a developer of mine-hunting models for the US Navy during World War II and after, and the man Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling credited with getting him interested in chemistry.According to the American Journal of Psychology, Jeffress was known to psychologists for his pioneering research on auditory masking in psychoacoustics, his stimulus-oriented approach to signal-detection theory in psychophysics, and his "ingenious" electronic and mathematical models of the auditory process.Jeffress received the first-ever Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America in 1977 for "extensive contributions in psychoacoustics, particularly binaural hearing, and for the example he has set as a teacher and scholar."