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margin: 0;">Area:</h5> Hearing <br> <h5 style="display: inline-block; margin: 0;">Website:</h5> <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1961/bekesy-bio.html" target="_blank">http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1961/bekesy-bio.html</a><br><h5 style="display: inline-block; margin: 0;">Google:</h5> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Georg+von+Bekesy%22" target="_blank">"Georg von Bekesy"</a><br><h5 style="display: inline-block; margin: 0;">Bio:</h5><p>(1899 - 1972)<br> <a href=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001675.html target=_blank>http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001675.html</a><br> <a href=https://history.aip.org/phn/11811008.html target=_blank>https://history.aip.org/phn/11811008.html</a><br> The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 was awarded to Georg von Békésy <q>for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea</q>.</p><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><h5 style="display: inline-block; 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If you notice any publications incorrectly attributed to this author, please <a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">sign in</a> and mark matches as correct or incorrect.</p> </td></tr> <tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">von Békésy G. (<b>1974</b>) Some biophysical experiments from fifty years ago. <em>Annual Review of Physiology</em>. 36: 1-16</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">von Békésy G. (<b>1973</b>) Sense organs and their sensitivity. <em>Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology</em>. 19: 1-30</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">Von Békésy G. (<b>1972</b>) Compensation method to measure the contrast produced by contours. <em>Journal of the Optical Society of America</em>. 62: 1247-51</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">von Békésy G. (<b>1972</b>) Mach bands measured by a compensation method. <em>Vision Research</em>. 12: 1485-97</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">Von Békésy G. (<b>1972</b>) Lines that do not increase their width under a magnifying glass. <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America</em>. 69: 885-7</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">von Békésy G. (<b>1971</b>) Auditory backward inhibition in concert halls. <em>Science (New York, N.Y.)</em>. 171: 529-36</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">Von Békésy G. (<b>1970</b>) Success and failure of teamwork in biology and medicine. <em>Perspectives in Biology and Medicine</em>. 14: 69-81</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">von Békésy G. (<b>1970</b>) Travelling waves as frequency analysers in the cochlea. <em>Nature</em>. 225: 1207-9</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">Von Békésy G. (<b>1969</b>) Similarities of inhibition in the different sense organs. <em>The American Psychologist</em>. 24: 707-19</td></tr><tr><td class="clickable-row" data-href="publications.php?pid=1710" style="font-size: 12px;">Von Békésy G. (<b>1969</b>) Inhibition as an important part of sensory perception. <em>The Laryngoscope</em>. 79: 1366-86</td></tr> </table> <a href="publications.php?pid=1710">See more...</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="loading-clock"></div> </div> </div> </div>  <footer> <div class="footer-container"> <div class="footer-bottom"> Added by: hanks (2005-11-02 17:55:11) - Is someone missing from the tree? <a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#signIN">Register/sign in</a> to make changes.<br> <img src="https://academictree.org/sess_align.php?w=PHPSESSID&x=cfdpcv3hqtm5qoupbr0cilmun5"/>Question? Ideas? Want to start a new tree? 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