Georg von Békésy - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1961
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Georg von Békésy

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1961
for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea
Citizenship
United States United States Hungary Hungary
Languages
English, Hungarian
date of birth
6/3/1899
place of birth
Budapest
date of death
6/13/1972
place of death
Honolulu
Lived
73 years

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educated at
  • Eötvös Loránd University
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • end time: 1923
  • University of Bern
    • end time: 1921
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1956
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
field of work
  • biophysics
occupation
  • engineer
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • neuroscientist
  • biophysicist
  • autobiographer
employer
  • University of Hawaiʻi System
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Harvard University
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