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Physiology or Medicine (216) |
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1981 (11) |
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Windsor (1) |
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2013 (18) |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) |
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National Academy of Sciences (334) |
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Royal Society (294) |
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Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (5) |
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Charles F. Prentice Medal (1) |
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Dickson Prize in Medicine (14) |
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Karl Spencer Lashley Award (8) |
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Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (50) |
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Rosenstiel Award (36) |
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| complete name: |
David Hubel |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1981 |
| together with: |
Roger Sperry |
| together with: |
Torsten Wiesel |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 was divided, one half awarded to Roger W. Sperry "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres", the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
David |
| family name: |
Hubel |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
neuroscientist |
| field of work: |
neurophysiology |
| work location: |
Harvard University, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America |
| description: |
David 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 (shared with Roger W. Sperry), 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. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1981/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1926 |
| date death: |
2013 |
| usual name: |
David Hubel |
