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Georg von Békésy
1961 Physiology or Medicine
* 1899 in Budapest
+ 1972 in Honolulu/Hawaii
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist.
In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
for his research on the function of the cochlea in the
mammalian hearing organ.
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