Eberhard Zwicker

Who was Eberhard Zwicker?

Karl Eberhard Zwicker was a German acoustics scientist and full professor at the Technical University Munich.

Zwicker studied physics and electrical engineering at the Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart and was an assistant of Richard Feldtkeller. In 1967 he was appointed full professor of the newly founded Institute for Electro-Acoustics of the TU Munich.

Zwicker developed a method for the computation of noise levels, DIN 45631.

Zwicker, together with Richard Feldtkeller, was author of the standard work for psychoacoustics Das Ohr als Nachrichtenempfänger..