Torsten wiesel biography of rory
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Torsten Wiesel
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Torsten Wiesel, a Swedish neuroscientist and physician, is the Scientific Patron and Honorary Member of the Young Academy of Sweden.
Torsten wiesel biography of rory
In 1981 Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with David H. Hubel (the other half awarded to Roger Sperry). They were awarded the prize for their studies of how visual information is transmitted to and processed in the brain’s visual cortex and how the underlying circuits are established during development.
Honorary Member 2012–
To mark Torsten Wiesel’s 90th birthday in 2014, the Young Academy of Sweden announced The Torsten Wiesel Midnight Sun Award for Distinguished Achievement in Promoting Science.
It has been observed that Hubel and Wiesel’s work:
… provided the greatest single influence on the ways neuroscientists thought about and prosecuted studies of the brain during much of the second half of the twentieth century.
(D.
Purves in Brains: How they seem to work, FT Press, 2009).