I mentioned Manfred Clynes in a post earlier today. He co-authored a 1960 paper in which the term “cyborg” was coined. Here’s an excerpt from “Young Scientist Leads Two Lives,” a New York Times article about Clynes from that same year which looks at his parallel interest in music:

“Late one recent evening a bespectacled young man, struck the resounding final chords of a Chopin ballade, rose hesitantly from the piano and with a shy smile bowed to the applause of a small group at a home near here.

The guests knew they had heard a breathtaking performance by the boyish-looking chief research scientist of the Rockland State Hospital.

But many did not know that scientists had been excited recently by his findings on the relation between breathing and the rate of the heart beat. They were equally ignorant of the high praise he had won from European and Australian music critics several years ago.

Manfred Clynes, born in Vienna and educated in Budapest and Australia, is still in his early thirties. He is a cyberneticist (computer scientist) and concert pianist who can look back on friendship with the late Dr. Albert Einstein and on notable accomplishments with such diverse instruments as the analog computer and the concert grand.

Since 1957 his small laboratory, resembling the back room of a radio-television repair shop, has seen pioneering experiments in applying computers and missile-control theory to medicine.”