Alfred C. Gimson

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Alfred Charles Gimson (7 June 1917 - 22 April 1985) was an English phonetician. His surname is pronounced ['gɪmsn] (with a hard, or velar, g, as in Gilbert ['gɪlbət]).

Gimson was educated at Emanuel School and University College London, where in 1966 he became professor and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics.

Gimson was a scholar of Daniel Jones, and as such extended Jones’s theories on phonetics.

Gimson’s Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, first published in 1962, is still accepted as the standard description of Received Pronunciation.