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Olson, Harry Ferdinand

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Olson, Harry Ferdinand (1902–1982)

US radio engineer and inventor. He joined RCA laboratories in 1928 and developed the unidirectional microphone. In the late 1940s he established the standards for high-fidelity sound reproduction and in 1955 he developed the first electronic music synthesizer. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to music in 1971. Olson was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.



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