Question: who developed and commercialised the modern multichannel cochlear implant (bionic ear)
Answer: The modern multichannel cochlear implant was independently developed and commercialized by Graeme Clark from Australia and Ingeborg Hochmair and her future husband , Erwin Hochmair , with the Hochmairs ' first implanted in a person in December 1977 and Clark 's in August 1978 .