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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961

"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy
USA
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1899
(in Budapest, Hungary)
d. 1972
 
 
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