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Von Békésy

American

[von bey-kuh-shee, fawn-bey-key-shi] / vɒn ˈbeɪ kə ʃi, fɔnˈbeɪ keɪ ʃɪ /

noun

Georg 1899–1972, U.S. physicist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1961.

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