ID
3935
Nationality
Australian
Occupation
First cochlear implant recipient
Summary
Deafened by a head injury. At age 48 in 1978, became the world's first person to receive a cochlear implant, in Melbourne, Australia. Was still using it 22 years later.
References
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?ID=51896.
Dates
1930?-