Georg von Békésy (1899-1972)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea.”

American physicist physiologist. von Békésy was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 3,1899. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1923 from the University of Budapest. During the years 1939-1946 he was also Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Budapest. He became a guest of the Karolinska Institute did research at the Technical Institute in Stockholm. In 1947 he went to the United States has worked since then at Harvard University in the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory. von Békésy died on June 13, 1972 at Honolulu, Hawaii.