Alexander Ellis

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Alexander John Ellis

Alexander John Ellis was a 19th-century mathematician, philologist and musicologist. He first proposed the unit of pitch measurement called the cent. Ellis is noted for translating and extensively annotating Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone.

See also

• Helmholtz–Ellis notation

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