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    Georg von Békésy (Hungarian: Békésy György, pronounced [ˈbeːkeːʃi ˈɟørɟ]; 3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist. By using...
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  • post-rock band Sigur Rós Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist Georg Cantor, German mathematician...
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    Von Békésy is a worn lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located in the northern latitudes, behind the northeastern limb of the Moon...
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    Trek universe and the Nightcrawler character from the X-Men universe. Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1961, he...
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  • time discrimination is not directly coupled with frequency range. Georg Von Békésy in 1929 identifying sound source directions suggested humans can resolve...
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  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whereas the actual winner was Georg von Békésy. Dr. Charles Burton: Professor of Pathology at the Baylor College of...
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    was stronger when the surrounding units were not exposed to light. Georg von Békésy, in his book Sensory Inhibition, explores a wide range of inhibitory...
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  • Teller Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas Georg von Békésy Theodore von Kármán John von Neumann József Szabó de Szentmiklós Eugene...
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    Békési, Békésy or Békesy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eszter Békési (born 2002), Hungarian swimmer Georg von Békésy (1899–1972)...
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    waves; each is separate in detecting high and low-frequency sounds. Georg von Békésy (1899–1972) employed the use of a microscope in order to examine the...
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    visiting faculty or came after they won major awards like Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, principal investigator of the research group that...
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    Egas Moniz (1949) Georg von Békésy (1961) George Wald (1967) Ragnar Granit (1967) Konrad Lorenz (1973) Niko Tinbergen (1973) Karl von Frisch (1973) Roger...
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    cochlea and that middle frequency sounds were encoded near the apex. Georg von Békésy developed a novel method of dissecting the inner ear and using stroboscopic...
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  • judgment (the error of anticipation). To avoid these potential pitfalls, Georg von Békésy introduced the staircase procedure in 1960 in his study of auditory...
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  • 1897 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973) 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate...
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  • this time, Hungarian biophysicist, Georg von Békésy began further exploration of tonotopy in the auditory cortex. Békésy measured the cochlear traveling...
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    demonstrated the electrical nature of the nerve signal, whose speed Hermann von Helmholtz proceeded to measure, and in 1875 Richard Caton found electrical...
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    discovering the biological process of Vitamin C in the human body. Georg von Békésy won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the...
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    (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government...
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    shortly thereafter it was announced that the 1961 Prize was awarded to Georg von Békésy. It was only two years later that Hodgkin, Huxley, and Eccles were...
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    Church Carl Baudenbacher – lawyer and President of the EFTA Court Georg von Békésy – biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 Walter Benjamin...
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  • 2020. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023. "Georg Lukács". The Nobel Prize. April 2020. Archived from the original on 29 September...
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  • producer (b. 1898) 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German...
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    Severo Ochoa / Arthur Kornberg 1960: Frank Burnet / Peter Medawar 1961: Georg von Békésy 1962: Francis Crick / James Watson / Maurice Wilkins 1963: John Eccles...
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  • Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (d. 1981) June 3 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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  • 1962 Melvin Calvin, Chemistry, 1961 Robert Hofstadter, Physics, 1961 Georg von Békésy, born in Hungary, Physiology or Medicine, 1961 Willard F. Libby, Chemistry...
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  • Virovitica County. The mother of the Hungarian Nobel-prize winner Georg von Békésy, Paula Mazaly was born here in 1877.[citation needed] Directly elected...
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  • specialists and physiologists, such as future (1961) Nobel Prize winner Georg von Békésy, who did not believe the cochlea operated under a feedback system....
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  • die in mehrehen Schriften verfochtene Theorie der Abstammung des Menschen von kleinen Menschenrassen." Tartu, Estonia)" "Work on the fertilization process...
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    1909) Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (b. 1901) Edmund Wilson, American writer and critic (b. 1895) June 13 Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist...
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