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    Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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  • (Saint-Petersburg) Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish medical researcher, Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate, campaigner for human rights IWL SR 56 Wiesel, an East...
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    structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Roger...
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  • and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation. 1981 Torsten Wiesel and David H. Hubel jointly receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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    Harvard University. His thesis, defended in 1970 and supervised by Torsten Wiesel, was titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye...
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    denser than connections that spread from side to side. David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel followed up on Mountcastle's discoveries in the somatic sensory cortex...
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    gratings (bars of particular orientations). These cells were discovered by Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel in the late 1950s. Such cells are tuned to different...
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  • create original dramatic works. From 1995 to 2007, Stein was married to Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    School, where she studied with the Nobel laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. From 1976 to 1978 she obtained postdoctoral training with Pasko Rakic...
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  • to movement in a certain direction. These cells were discovered by Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel in the early 1960s. They refrained from reporting on...
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    neuroscience, visual cortical simple cells were first shown by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel to have response properties that resemble Gabor filters, which are band-pass...
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    University In office 1990–1991 Preceded by Joshua Lederberg Succeeded by Torsten Wiesel Personal details Born (1938-03-07) March 7, 1938 (age 86) New York,...
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  • 100 years old". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 June 2024. "Torsten Wiesel, 100 år av höjdpunkter" (in Swedish). 3 June 2024. "Poet Edward Field...
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    code stimuli and thus basic concepts are possible (David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel). The molecular revolution swept across US universities in the 1980s...
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    limited and properly performed psychosurgery could have positive effects. Torsten Wiesel has called the award of the Nobel Prize to Moniz an "astounding [error]...
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    1984 R. Bruce Merrifield Chemistry Faculty when prize awarded 1981 Torsten Wiesel Physiology or Medicine President and faculty after prize awarded 1975...
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    into how the brain processes information. For example, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel recorded the activity of single neurons in the primary visual cortex...
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    has been confirmed by direct brain examination. David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for their work...
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    with Cherry A. Murray, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Torsten Wiesel, Kōji Omi, Akito Arima, Jonathan M. Dorfan and Robert Baughman...
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    Kenichi Fukui; Roald Hoffmann Roger Wolcott Sperry; David H. Hubel; Torsten Wiesel Elias Canetti United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees James Tobin...
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  • David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discovered that mammalian brains contained specific neural cortical columns which were attuned to specific spatial frequencies...
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    admitted to Rockefeller University and joined the group of Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel, working with Lawrence C. Katz. There he developed the calcium imaging...
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  • 1961), an actress and producer in New York. Jean Stein later married Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    Nauta (1974-1980) Masao Ito (1980-1984) Dominick P. Purpura (1984-1999) Torsten Wiesel (1999-2005) Albert Aguayo (2005-2008) Carlos Belmonte (2008-2014) Pierre...
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    Daw; their existence in primates was suggested by David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, first demonstrated by C.R. Michael and subsequently confirmed by Bevil...
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  • to as Kalaignar (d. 2018) Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997) Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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  • Chemistry, 1955 George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934 Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize, 1997...
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  • (1975–1976) Floyd E. Bloom (1976–1977) W. Maxwell Cowan (1977–1978) Torsten Wiesel (1978–1979) Solomon H. Snyder (1979–1980) Eric Kandel (1980–1981) David...
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    (1958–59), former resident, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981 Torsten Wiesel – Assistant Professor (1958–59), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    with Cherry A. Murray, Tim Hunt, Torsten Wiesel, Kōji Omi, Akito Arima, Jonathan M. Dorfan and Robert Baughman...
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