Professor Graham Clark of the Melbourne University has been awarded the 2007 Klaus Joachim Zulch prize, Germany’s highest neuroscience award for the invention of bionic ear implant. The new invention will help thousands of deaf people across the world in hearing.
A cochlear implant also known, as bionic ear is an electronic device that is surgically implanted and helps in hearing the deaf or those who are severely hard of hearing.
Clark shared the prize with Dr John Donoghue who leads the brain science program at Brown University in the U.S.
The Max Planck Institute gives away the Zulch award and is the top research institute in the world according to the Times Education Supplement.
About 80,000 people in some 70 countries use the Cochlear implants for hearing. In August, Prof Clark will be awarded with $40,000 as the prize money .The ceremony for the same is scheduled to take place in Cologne, Germany.
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