Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Wiesel
Wiesel in 2010
7th President of Rockefeller University
In office
1991–1998
Preceded byDavid Baltimore
Succeeded byArnold J. Levine
Personal details
Born
Torsten Nils Wiesel

(1924-06-03) 3 June 1924 (age 100)
Uppsala, Sweden
Spouses
  • Teeri Stenhammar
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    (m. 1956; div. 1970)​
  • Ann Yee
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    (m. 1973; div. 1981)​
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    (m. 1995; div. 2007)​
  • Lizette Mususa Reyes
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    (m. 2008)​
Children1
Alma materKarolinska Institute
Known forVisual system
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions

Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel,[5][6][7] he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,[4] for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry[8] for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.[9]

  1. ^ Hubel, David; Wiesel, Torsten (2012). "David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel". Neuron. 75 (2): 182–184. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.002. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 22841302.
  2. ^ "Professor Torsten Wiesel ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 11 November 2015.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference royal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference wiesel-bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Shatz, C. J. (2013). "David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013) Neuroscientist who helped to reveal how the brain processes visual information". Nature. 502 (7473): 625. doi:10.1038/502625a. PMID 24172972.
  6. ^ Hubel, D. H.; Wiesel, T. N. (1959). "Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex". The Journal of Physiology. 148 (3): 574–591. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006308. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1363130. PMID 14403679.
  7. ^ Hubel, D. H.; Wiesel, T. N. (1962). "Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex". The Journal of Physiology. 160 (1): 106–154. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1962.sp006837. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1359523. PMID 14449617.
  8. ^ Voneida, T. J. (1997). "Roger Wolcott Sperry. 20 August 1913--17 April 1994: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 463–470. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0025.
  9. ^ Multiple sources:
    • David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel. Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0195176189
    • Berlucchi, Giovanni (2006). "Revisiting the 1981 Nobel Prize to Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of the centennial of the Prize to Golgi and Cajal". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. Vol. 15, no. 4 (published December 2006). pp. 369–75. doi:10.1080/09647040600639013. PMID 16997764.
    • Shampo, M A; Kyle, R A (1994). "Torsten Wiesel--Swedish neurobiologist wins Nobel Prize". Mayo Clin. Proc. Vol. 69, no. 11 (published November 1994). p. 1026. doi:10.1016/s0025-6196(12)61367-6. PMID 7967753.
    • Korczyn, A (1981). "[Nobel prize winners in medicine--1981 (Torsten Wiesel, David Hubel)]". Harefuah. Vol. 101, no. 12 (published 15 December 1981). pp. 378–9. PMID 7042494.
    • Prasanna, Venkhatesh V (2011). "Do we learn to see?". Resonance: Journal of Science Education. Vol. 16, no. 1 (published 12 January 2011). pp. 88–99. doi:10.1007/s12045-011-0013-4.