Background
Hawkins, Joseph Elmer was born on March 4, 1914 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Joseph Elmer and Maude Burke (Schlenker) Hawkins.
educator acoustic physiologist
Hawkins, Joseph Elmer was born on March 4, 1914 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Joseph Elmer and Maude Burke (Schlenker) Hawkins.
Student, Altes Realgymnasium, Munich, 1929-1930; AB, Baylor University, 1933; postgraduate, Brown U., 1933-1934; Bachelor in Physiology, U. Oxford, 1937; Master of Arts, U. Oxford, 1966; Doctor of Science in Clinical Medicine, U. Oxford, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Science, Harvard University, 1941.
Teaching fellow in physiology, Harvard Medical School, 1937-1941;
instructor, Harvard Medical School, 1941-1945;
assistant investigator, National Defense Research Committee-Office Science Research & Development, Harvard University, 1941-1943;
special research associate, Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, Cambridge, 1943-1945;
assistant professor physiology, Bowman Gray School Medicine, Wake Forest College, 1945-1946;
research associate neurophysiology, Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, 1946-1956;
associate professor otolaryngology, New York University School Medicine, 1956-1963;
professor physiological acoustics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1963-1984;
professor otolaryngology emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1984;
chairman graduate program in physiological acoustics, University of Michigan, 1969-1981. Associate director Kresge Hearing Research Institute, 1979-1982. Distinguished visiting professor biology Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1985-1993.
Member National Institutes of Health sensory diseases study section, 1958-1961, communicative disorders research training committee, 1965-1969, communicative science study section, 1975-1979. Member National Library. Medicine Communicative Disorders Task Force, 1977-1979.
Lecturer Armed Forces Institute Pathology, 1969-1974. Consultant various pharmaceutical companies.
President Fleming Creek Neighborhood Association, Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1973-1974. Member Board Education, Cranford, New Jersey, 1958-1961. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Acoustical Society American.
Member American Physiological Society, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (award of merit 1985), Collegium Oto-rhino-laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, Bárány Society, European Workshop for Inner Ear Biology, American Association for History of Medicine, American Otological Society (associate), Prosper Menière Society (honorary, Gold medal 1998), Pacific Coast Oto-ophthalmological Society (honorary), Connétablie de Guyenne (Bordeaux, associate), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Jane Elizabeth Daddow, August 24, 1939. Children: Richard Spencer Daddow, Peter Douglas Huntington, James Marion Davis, William Alexander Parmley, Priscilla Ann (Mistress Philip A. Leach).