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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1961
Georg von Békésy received the 1961 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea. This work opened new questions and influenced later research and practice. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.