Torsten Wiesel
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 100 |
Date of birth | June 3,1924 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Uppsala |
Sweden | |
Known for | Visual system |
Spouse | Jean Stein |
Job | Lecturer |
Biologist | |
Neurologist | |
Books | Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case |
The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences | |
Colloquium on Vision: From Photon to Perception | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | |
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
Order of the Rising Sun | |
Dickson Prize | |
Education | Karolinska Institute |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 569693 |
Torsten Wiesel Life story
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.