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David Hunter Hubel FRS (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was an American 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 ...
David Hunter Hubel (born February 27, 1926, Windsor, Ontario, Canada—died September 22, 2013, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a Canadian American neurobiologist, corecipient with Torsten Nils Wiesel and Roger Wolcott Sperry of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. All three scientists were honoured for their investigations of ...
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Sep 22, 2013 · 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"
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David H. Hubel Biographical . I was born in 1926 in Windsor, Ontario. Three of my grandparents were also born in Canada: the fourth, my paternal grandfather, emigrated as a child to the U.S.A. from the Bavarian town of Nördlingen.
Sep 27, 2013 · Dr. David Hubel, a founder of modern neuroscience who helped decipher how our brains perceive what our eyes see, passed away on Sunday, September 22. He was 87. When Hubel was a young scientist in the 1950s, the field of “neuroscience” didn’t exist, at least not in the strictest sense. In fact, the term wasn’t even coined until the 1960s.
Sep 24, 2013 · Dr. David Hubel, who was half of an enduring scientific team that won a Nobel Prize for explaining how the brain assembles information from the eye’s retina to produce detailed visual images of the world, died on Sunday in Lincoln, Mass. He was 87. Hubel was the John Franklin Enders Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at HMS. Read full article.
Sep 25, 2013 · Neuron, October 16, 2013. David Hubel. Image: The Nobel Foundation David H. Hubel, whose discoveries in visual processing and development ushered in the modern study of the cerebral cortex and changed the way childhood cataracts and strabismus (“cross-eye”) were treated, died on Sept. 22, 2013, of kidney failure in Lincoln, Mass. He was 87.
