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Stephen Polyak

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Gender Male
Date of birth December 13,1889
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Durdevac
Croatia
DiedChicago
Illinois
United States
BooksThe Retina: The Anatomy and the Histology of the Retina in Man, Ape, and Monkey, Including the Consideration of Visual Functions, the History of Physiological Optics, and the Histological Laboratory Technique
Education Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Academic advisor Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Stephen Polyak was an American neuroanatomist and neurologist considered to be one of the most prominent neuroanatomists of the 20th century. Polyak studied the functional structure of the organs of sight and hearing, explaining the function of the retina and the cochlea, and visual and auditory pathways and centers.

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