Uber die photoelektrische Fourier-Analyse eines gegebenen Kurvenzuges -- Sonderdruck aus Elektrische Nachrichten-Technik, XIV,1937, 5. - [INSCRIBED BY BEKESY, NOBEL-PRIZE WINNER IN 1961]

VON BEKESY, GEORG

Published by Julius Springer, Berlin, 1937

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Imperial octavo (29x20.5 cm), folded. - pp.157-161, blank. - In publisher's printed yellow wrapper, front cover almost detached. - Inscribed in ink: "Herrn Prof Dr. Karl Stumpff . von Verf.". - With 7 illustrations. - Bekesy (1899- 1972) won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ. - He started his prize-winning research while working for the Hungarian Post Office (which operated the phone system of Hungary) in Budapest, where he worked until 1946, His main research topic was the study of the ear as the main component of the phone transmission system. - During the World War II bombing of Hungary his laboratory was demolished, and in the 1944-45 siege of Budapest bis research records were destroyed. - After the war, he worked first at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, and after that at Harvard. As he later stated, at Harvard he lost everything the third time, as the building which housed his laboratory burned down in 1965. - After that fire, he was offered to lead a research laboratory for sense organs in Honolulu, where he became a professor at the University of Hawaii in 1966. - The present article describes and shows two illustrations of his apparatus, and the analysis of the resulting data by Fourier analysis. - This offprint is extremely rare, WotjdCat records only a single copy (Universita Cattolica de Sacro Cuore, Milano). - The recipient of this item, Karl Johamm Nikolaus Stumpff (1895-1970), taught at that time at the Friedrch-Wilhelms-Universitat in Berlin, and later as a professor at the University of Graz and the University of Gottingen. !n 1961 and 1966/67, he also worked for NASA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uber die photoelektrische Fourier-Analyse eines gegebenen Kurvenzuges -- Sonderdruck aus Elektrische Nachrichten-Technik, XIV,1937, 5. - [INSCRIBED BY BEKESY, NOBEL-PRIZE WINNER IN 1961]
• Publisher: Julius Springer, Berlin
• Publication Date: 1937
• Language: German
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: not applicable