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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Georg Von Békésy papers, 1928-1972 (bulk 1955-1970)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Von Békésy, Georg</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1899-1972</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ger</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>51,300</extent>
    <extent>119</extent>
    <extent>47.6</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>Chiefly writings and research papers, reports, notes, and other materials, along with correspondence, speeches, lectures, subject files, biographical material, financial records, printed matter, and other papers pertaining primarily to von Békésy's research and writing in the area of speech and hearing and in sensory sciences in general.  Subjects include his 1961 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, work at the University of Hawaii, interest in archaeology and art collecting, and travels.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Motion pictures and audio recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographs and slides transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Physicist, physiologist, and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English and German.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>University of Hawaii (Honolulu)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Archaeology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Art</topic>
    <topic>Collectors and collecting</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hearing</topic>
    <topic>Physiological aspects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nobel Prizes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Physics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Senses and sensation</topic>
    <topic>Physiological aspects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Speech</topic>
    <topic>Physiological aspects</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>Hawaii</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Voyages and travels</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Educators</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Physicists</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Physiologists</occupation>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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