Hair Cell Rock and Roll
Taking off a bit on last week’s controversy between Thomas Gold and Georg von Bekesy , rivals on their respective sides of the argument of passive versus resonance theories of cochlear mechanics. While researching last week’s Hearing International, I came across an interesting discussion of hair cell electromotility. Recall that the predominate cochlear mechanics theory of the 1950s, 1960s…
Read MoreThe Von Bekesy – Gold Controversy
While both of these renown American scientists were foreign born, they both emigrated to the US furthering their already stellar scientific careers. Georg von Bekesy (1899-1972), a Hungarian citizen, he had moved to the United States in 1947 after working in various European laboratories and found himself at the Harvard University in the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory. At the time, the labs…
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