Georg Von Békésy
1899-1972
Hungarian-born American physicist whose discovery of how sound waves affect the cochlea, a part of the inner ear, led to greater understanding of the ear and senso...
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Georg von Békésy was educated as a physicist, but is best known for his research on the physics of hearing. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his researc...
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Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born scientist who discovered how sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, part of the inner ear. For this work, in 1961 he became the first ph...
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Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born scientist who discovered how sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, part of the inner ear. For this work, in 1961 he became the first ph...
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