biography
| name: |
Wiesel, Torsten N(ils)
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pronunciation:
[veezel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Neurobiologist, born in Uppsala, E Sweden. He studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, then moved to the USA, where he worked at Johns Hopkins (1955–9) and Harvard (1959–83) universities, joining Rockefeller university in 1983, and becoming president there in 1992. He performed pioneering research on the visual cortex of the brain, and with collaborator David Hubel shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how the brain interprets the messages it receives from the eyes. |
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