Torsten Nils Wiesel - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1981
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Torsten Nils Wiesel

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1981
for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system
Together with: David H. Hubel, Roger Sperry
Citizenship
SwedenSwedenUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English, Swedish
date of birth
6/3/1924
place of birth
Uppsala
Age
102 years

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occupation
  • lecturer
  • neurobiologist
  • academic
  • neurologist
field of work
  • neuroscience
  • neurobiology
educated at
  • Karolinska Institutet
employer
  • Harvard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • The Rockefeller University
  • The Rockefeller University
    • start time: 1983
    • end time: 1998
member of
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1980
  • New York Academy of Medicine
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1995
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • European Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2004
doctoral student
  • Rafael Yuste
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