George Oscar Russel (1890, in Conejos, Colorado – March 17, 1962) was an American speech scientist. He was a professor at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

and published an influential book in 1928 called ''The Vowel: Its Physiological Mechanism as Shown by X-Ray''. He was a student of

Ludimar Hermann Ludimar Hermann (October 31, 1838 – June 5, 1914) was a German physiology, physiologist and phonetics, speech scientist who used the Thomas Edison, Edison phonograph to test theories of vowel production, particularly those of Robert Willis ( ...

External links

Biography at "A short history of Speech Pathology in America" site
1890 births 1962 deaths Ohio State University faculty Linguists from the United States {{US-linguist-stub