Georg von Békésy

Georg von Békésy, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1899-06-03 in Budapest, Hungary

Gender: male

Field: Hungarian-American biophysicist

Biography

Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961

Awarded on: 1961-10-19

"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"

Affiliations:

  • Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA, USA