Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born scientist who discovered how sound is analyzed and communicated in the cochlea, part of the inner ear. For this work, in 1961 he became the first physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in medicine and...

Georg von Békésy was educated as a physicist, but is best known for his research on the physics of hearing. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his research on the physical mechanism of hearing, particularly...

1899-1972 Hungarian-born American physicist whose discovery of how sound waves affect the cochlea, a part of the inner ear, led to greater understanding of the ear and sensory perception. In 1947 Békésy took a position at the Harvard...

In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ. The decision of the prize committee had been controversial from the beginning, and research of the past...

George E. von Rosen, founder of Publishers Development Corporation and publisher of the world's first newsstand gun magazine, died May 2. He was 84. Von Rosen was a self-made man, and even though he never graduated from college, he worked as an...

George E. von Rosen, founder of Publishers Development Corporation and publishers of the world's first newsstand gun magazine, died May 2. He was 84. Von Rosen was a self-made man, and even though he never graduated from college, he worked as an...