David H. Hubel
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1926 – 2013
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Who was David H. Hubel?
David Hunter Hubel was a Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. For much of his career, Hubel was the John Franklin Enders University Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1978, Hubel and Wiesel were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1926
Windsor - Also known as
- David Hunter Hubel
- Nationality
- Canada
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Windsor
- Died
- Sep 22, 2013
Lincoln
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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