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Georg von Békésy was born one hundred years ago, on July 3, 1899 in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the University of Bern as a chemist in 1921. He received a Ph.D. in physics in Budapest under the supervision of Charles Tangl in 1923. From 1926 to 1947 he worked in Hungary's best-equipped research laboratory, in the Postal Experimental Institution as a postal engineer. Here he lead basic physical...
This paper describes the first moon-radar echo experiment conducted by Zoltán Bay in Hungary in 1946, and makes some comment on Bay as a model for contemporary physics students.
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