Robert Shapley

Who is Robert Shapley?

Robert Shapley is an American neurophysiologist,the Natalie Clews Spencer Professor of the Sciences at New York University, a professor in the Center for Neural Science and an associate member of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Shapley received an A.B. Degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. With a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, he went to Northwestern University and the University of Cambridge. He served on the US National Research Council’s Committee on Vision.He graduated from Harvard University, and from Rockefeller University with a PhD in neurophysiology and biophysics. In 1986 he received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship from the MacArthur Fellows Program