James Olds
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1922 – 1976
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Who was James Olds?
James Olds was an American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience and received numerous distinctions ranging from election to the United States National Academy of Sciences to the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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- Born
- May 30, 1922
Chicago - Also known as
- Олдс, Джеймс
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Harvard University
- Amherst College
- Died
- Aug 21, 1976
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on July 23, 2013
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