Georg Von Békésy
January 7, 2008-February 29, 2008
Location: Bridge Gallery
Georg von Békésy was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 3,1899; he died in Honolulu on June 13, 1972. He was the only Nobel prize winner to ever work at the University of Hawai´i. In 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ.
His hobby was collecting art objects and books about art. The Von Békésy art books cover the Ancient Near East, Classical Byzantine, Iran and the Islamic World, India, Cambodia and Thailand, East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), Europe, Africa and the Americas.
