Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.
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Lifespan
1899 – 1972Quotes
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Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd UniversityUniversity of Bern
- Awards
- 🏆 Silver Leibniz medal🏆 honorary doctor of Semmelweis University🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine🏆 ASA Gold Medal
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Trending topics shown first"If we want to make a discovery, we have to take a risk, since everything new was discovered by accident or by the fact that somebody took a chance and went ahead when there wasn't 100 percent safety f…"
— Georg von Békésy
Science1899–1972
science
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1899
Born
Birth1972
Died
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