Von Békésy

[ von bey-kuh-shee; Hungarian fawn-bey-key-shi ]

noun

1. Ge·org [gey, -awrg, ge, -aw, r, g], 1899–1972, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1961.

Example Sentences

Georg von Bekesy, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1961 for discovering how sounds affect the sensory cells of the inner ear, told a younger colleague that significant discoveries require studying a phenomenon under as many different conditions and with as many measures as possible in order to avoid a premature and incorrect conclusion.

From Salon

Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, Hungarian-born physicist and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on the human ear; of cancer; in Honolulu.

From Time Magazine Archive

Von Bekesy was a scientist employed by a Budapest telephone laboratory when he began his research into the physiological aspects of hearing during the '20s.

From Time Magazine Archive