Vernon Mountcastle
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 9 years ago |
Date of birth | July 15,1918 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | United States |
Date of died | January 14,2015 |
Died | Baltimore |
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United States | |
Awards | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research |
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | |
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
NAS Award in the Neurosciences | |
International Prize | |
Education | Roanoke College |
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ID | 705124 |
Vernon Mountcastle Life story
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s.