biography
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Hartline, Haldan (Keffer)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–83)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, then taught at Cornell (1931–49) and Johns Hopkins (1949–53), and became professor of physiology at the Rockefeller University, New York City (1954–74). By the use of very small electrodes applied to cells in the eyes of frogs and crabs, he was able to show how an eye distinguishes shapes. He shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the neurophysiology of vision. |
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