The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 Presentation Speech
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In one of his scientific papers von Békésy describes that on board a ship he became interested in how the fog horn was made, since he had been struck by the fact that the fog signal which was heard for many miles at sea, was practically inaudible in the cabin of the ship. This episode serves as an introduction to a paper analysing those properties of the ear the functions of which are to give together with a high sensitivity to sounds coming from outside a remarkably low sensitivity to one's own voice, even though this sound is produced from a nearby source within the body. This quality of the auditory organ is indeed of essential importance both for the speaker and the listener not least in a big auditorium. The quality mentioned is, however, only one of the many abilities of this highly specialized sense organ whose mechanisms have been the subject of von Békésy's brilliant analysis.
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