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  Definition of Torsten Nils Wiesel
Hubel and Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for their work on ocular dominance columns in the 1960s and 1970s.
Wiesel joined the faculty of Rockefeller University in 1983 and became president of the university in 1991.
In 2001, Wiesel was nominated to a panel in the National Institutes of Health to advise on assisting research in developing countries.
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 Torsten Wiesel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 3, 1924) was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of 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.
In 2001, Wiesel was nominated to a panel in the National Institutes of Health to advise on assisting research in developing countries.
Wiesel was rejected by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.
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Wiesel was rejected by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.
This incident was cited by the Union of Concerned Scientists as part of a report detailing their allegations of President George W. Bush's abuse of science.
Hubel and Wiesel received the Nobel Prize 1981 for their work on ocular dominance columns in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 BookRags: Torsten Wiesel Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Torsten Nils Wiesel was born on June 3, 1924, in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Anna-Lisa Bentzer Wiesel and Fritz S. Wiesel, the chief psychiatrist at the Beckomberga Mental Hospital in Stockholm.
Wiesel and Hubel showed that the visual cortex is constituted of a cell pattern, which appears to be designed specifically for vision.
Wiesel and Hubel continued their close working relationship until Wiesel left Harvard in 1984 to head the neurobiology lab at Rockefeller University where he continued his researches on vision.
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 Wiesel Torsten Nils - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Wiesel Torsten Nils - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Wiesel, Torsten Nils, born in 1924, Swedish-American neurophysiologist and cowinner, with Canadian-American neurobiologist David H. Hubel and...
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 Torsten Nils Wiesel - Encyclopedia.com
After earning a degree in medicine from Karolinska Univ., Stockholm (1954), he took a research position at Johns Hopkins Univ., where he began his work with David Hunter Hubel.
Wiesel and Hubel noted that various forms of visual stimuli are handled by different sections of the brain.
Their collaborative work spanned over several decades, leading to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for their important studies of the visual cortex.
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 Wiesel - Fourth-year wins Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928.
Elie Wiesel's famous book Night (1958) is a personal account of the deadly persecution of his family during the Holocaust.
Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, Wiesel's job as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust was the
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PirB: an immune system gene that restricts synaptic plasticity Shatz was a student of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for their work on processing in the visual system.
Wiesel clasped the faculty of Rockefeller University in 1983 und became president of the university in 1991.
In 2001, Wiesel was nominated to a panel in the National Institutes of Health to advise on assisting inquiry in making countries.
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Hubel and, like, Wiesel received Nobel Prize for their work on ocular dominance columns in 1960s and, like, 1970s.
Wiesel joined faculty of Rockefeller University in 1983 and, like, became president of university in 1991.
Wiesel was rejected by Secretary of Health and, like, Human Services Tommy Thompson.
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 WIESEL, TORSTEN NILS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The two relocated their research operations to Harvard in 1959.
Wiesel and Hubel noted that various forms of visual stimuli are handled by different sections of the brain.
Their collaborative work spanned over several decades, leading to the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1981 for their important studies of the visual cortex.
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 Wiesel - Elie Wiesel Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Torsten N. Wiesel I was born in Uppsala Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children.
Elie Wiesel is the son of Sholomo and Sarah (Feig) Wiesel.
Wiesel is now an accomplish writer, and a winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace prize.
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Torsten Wiesel (1924-) was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the youngest of five children.
He received a medical degree from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where his curiosity of the nervous system was stimulated by lectures in neurophysiology.
In 1981, Wiesel and Hubel were co-recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual region of the brain.
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 USC - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Así, os vindeiros días 9 e 10 de outubro participará en ConCiencia o prestixioso doutor Torsten Nils Wielsen, Premio Nobel de Medicina.
Os resultados de Wiesel demostraron cómo a zona cerebral encargada da visión necesita de estímulos para o seu desenvolvemento.
O seu achado converteuse nun aspecto clave na eterna cuestión de se as cualidades dun individuo son innatas ou adquiridas.
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 AllRefer.com - Torsten Nils Wiesel (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Torsten Nils Wiesel (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 28 The Electric Signals Originating in the Eye
A seminal study of recordings from different retinal layers and individual retinal cells was later made also by Torsten Wiesel (Swedish, 1924-) and K.T. Brown (1961).
Torsten Nils Wiesel shared the 1981 Nobel Prize with David Hunter Hubel "for discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system."
Wiesel TN, Brown KT (1961): Localization of origins of electroretinogram components by intraretinal recording in the intact cat eye.
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Hubel shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology with Sperry and Wiesel in 1981.
Sperry made major contributions to the knowledge of development of specific connections in the brains of fishes and amphibians, and of the functions of the human corpus callosum.
He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology, 1981, which he shared with Hubel and Wiesel.
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 Torsten N. Wiesel Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Torsten N. Wiesel Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Torsten N. Wiesel nació en Upsala (submitted by superman)
Torsten N. Wiesel — Autobiography (submitted by Thomas)
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2) Torsten Nils, schwedischer Neurobiologe, * Uppsala 3.
Élie Wiesel - Friedensnobelpreis 1986 Der jüdische Schriftsteller hat sich zeitlebens für die Rechte unterdrückter Menschen eingesetzt...
Roger Wolcott Sperry, David Hunter Hubel, Torsten Nils Wiesel - Medizinnobelpreis 1981 Die Amerikaner und der Schwede...
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 David Hunter Hubel
They observed that various nerve cells were responsible for different types of visual stimuli.
In 1981, Hubel and Wiesel received a Nobel prize for their research in neurophysiology.
Torsten Nils Wiesel - Wiesel, Torsten Nils, 1924–, Swedish neurobiologist, b.
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Torsten Nils Wiesel, Torsten Wiesel (1924-) was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the youngest of five children.
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 Torsten N. Wiesel - Autobiography
I was born in Uppsala Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children.
My father, Fritz S. Wiesel, was chief psychiatrist and head of Beckomberga Hospital, a mental institution located on the outskirts of Stockholm.
We were brought up by my mother, Anna-Lisa (b.
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 February 27 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canadian-born American neurobiologist, who was a corecipient (with Torsten Nils Wiesel and Roger Wolcott Sperry) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for mapping the path of nerve impulses from the eye to various centres of the brain.
In 1958, Hubel joined Wiesel at Johns Hopkins University, and the two relocated to Harvard in 1959.
Their work was made possible by a number of technical advances.
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 Torsten N. Wiesel Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Torsten N. Wiesel Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Torsten N. Wiesel nació en Upsala (submitted by superman)
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Swedish neurobiologist, corecipient (with Americans David Hunter Hubel and Roger Wolcott Sperry) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
All three scientists were honoured for their investigations of brain function, Wiesel and Hubel in particular for their collaborative studies of the visual cortex, which is located in the occipital lobes of the cerebrum.
Born 3 June 1904; died 1 April 1950.
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