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Torsten Nils Wiesel
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Swedish neuroscientist
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Torsten Nils Wiesel was born on June 3, 1924. He is recognized as a Nobel Laureate, having received one Nobel Prize.
His work is included in several prestigious collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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Torsten Nils Wiesel is indexed among the 233 entries in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Medicine collection. It also appears in National Medal of Science.
Vinony's link graph records 754 inbound references to Torsten Nils Wiesel, and connects out to Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Allan McLeod Cormack and Konrad Emil Bloch.
It sits within the topics 1924 births, Foreign fellows of the Indian National Science Academy and Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Preceded by
- David Baltimore
- Succeeded by
- Arnold J. Levine
- Born
- Torsten Nils Wiesel , ( 1924-06-03 ) 3 June 1924 (age 102) , Uppsala , Sweden
- Alma mater
- Karolinska Institute
- Known for
- Visual system
- Awards
- Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1977) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1978) Dickson Prize (1980) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981) ForMemRS (1982) National Medal of Science (2005)
- Institutions
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Rockefeller University Harvard University
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1981
“for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Torsten
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Uppsala
- Spouse
- Jean Stein
- Occupation
- biologist
- Educated at
- Karolinska Institutet
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Medicine
- Doctoral student
- Rafael Yuste
- Field of work
- neuroscience
- Image
- Torsten Wiesel-7Nov2006.jpg
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- member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1924-06-03
- Commons category
- Torsten Wiesel
- name in native language
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
- subject has role
- centenarian
- interested in
- neurobiology
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Encyclopedic overview
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, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
Career
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