REMEMBERING AN ACOUSTICIAN NUMERO UNO


GEORG VON BÉKÉSY
(3 Jun 1899 – 13 Jun 1972)

A person using a hearing aid should first and foremost be thankful to the Budapest born Hungarian-American biophysicist and Nobel Laureate, Georg von Békésy, for his yeoman work on the faculty of hearing...

The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed three inventions, the telephone, the phonograph and the radio, by Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Tesla-Marconi respectively. They gave our faculty of hearing a new dimension of sorts to cheer...

These developments ignited a revolution in the field of communications, and by the first half of the 20th century Hermann von Helmholtz and Georg von Békésy shot into limelight with their works on the human ear...

Graduating from the Royal Joseph Technical University, Budapest in electrical engineering, the innovative von Békésy's expertise in many fields, including physics and anatomy, saw him emerge as a pioneer in acoustic research...

By 1947 von Bekesy’s cadaveric experiments on the cochlea, the organ of hearing, provided crucial physiological insights, contributing immensely to our understanding of the hearing faculty. von Békésy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1961, for his work on the mammalian organ of hearing...

von Békésy’s researches have been instrumental in the development and advances in audiology, hearing aids and cochlear implants...

von Békésy passed away this day, in 1972, at Hawaii, US, aged 73...

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