When1: 1928
When2: 1962
Who: Georg von Bekesy [Bekesy, Georg von]
What: physicist/physiologist/linguist/inventor
Where: Hungary
works\ Theory of Audition [1928 to 1932]; Experiments in Hearing [1962]; Bekesy audiometer
Detail: He lived 1899 to 1972. Sound vibrations travel from one inner-ear basilar-membrane end toward the other [1928 to 1932]. For sound frequencies, different membrane positions have maximum vibration.
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