Background
Ward, Wallace Dixon was born on June 30, 1924 in Pierre, South Dakota, United States. Son of Edmund Dixon and Thelma Marie (Hill) Ward.
Ward, Wallace Dixon was born on June 30, 1924 in Pierre, South Dakota, United States. Son of Edmund Dixon and Thelma Marie (Hill) Ward.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, South Dakota School Mines and Technology, 1944. Doctor of Science, South Dakota School Mines and Technology, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology, Harvard University, 1953.
Research engineer, Baldwin Piano Company, Cincinnati, 1953-1954;
research associate, Center Institute for Deaf, St. Louis, 1954-1957;
associate director research, Noise Research Center, American Academy Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Los Angeles, 1957-1962;
professor, departments communication disorders, otolaryngology, public health and psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1962-1996. Member commission on hearing, bioacoustics and biomechanics National Research Council, 1960-1992, member executive county, 1970-1975, chairman, 1971-1973. Member communicative science study section division research grants National Institutes of Health, 1969-1973.
Science adviser Callier Hearing and Speech Center, Dallas, 1968-1986. Consultant United States Army, 1972-1988, Environmental Protection Agency Office Noise Abatement and Control, 1973. Member, co-chairman International Science Noise Teams, 1973-1996.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow Acoustical Society of America (member executive council 1978-1981, president 1988), American Speech and Hearing Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Audiology Society (v.p, 1973-1975, president 1976), International Society Audiology (governing board, president 1978-1980), American Otological Society, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Mensa, Triangle, Society for Music Perception and Cognition (vice president 1992), Sigma Xi, Sigma Tau.
Married Edith Marion Bystrom, December 27,1949. Children: Edith Marion IV, Laurie Elizabeth, Kathryn Christine, Holly Lydene.