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Whitney Villagran

Faculty Support Specialist
Faculty: Buckner, Gershman, Phelps, Somerville, Ullman

Before joining Harvard, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and double majored in Psychology and English....

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Georg von Békésy, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1961 (Image Credit: The Nobel Foundation)
Georg von Békésy, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1961 (Image Credit: The Nobel Foundation)

Georg von Békésy

(1899-1972)
Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory
Nobel Prize lecture (1961) for work in the Department of Psychology

The only Nobel Prize awarded to a scientist for work in the Department of Psychology at Harvard went to a biophysicist who had spent much of his early...

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