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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
No full textWhile attending medical school at McGill, David Hubel developed an interest in the nervous system during the summers he spent at the Montreal Neurological Institute. After heading to the United States in 1954 for a Neurology year at Johns Hopkins, he was drafted by the army and was assigned to the Neuropsychiatry Division at the Walter Reed Hospital, where he began his career in research and did his first recordings from the visual cortex of sleeping and awake cats. In 1958, he moved to the lab of Stephen Kuffler at Johns Hopkins, where he began a long and fruitful collaboration with Torsten Wiesel.Born in Sweden, Torsten Wiesel began his scientific career at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. After spending a year in Carl Gustaf Bernhard’s laboratory doing basic neurophysiological research, he moved to the United States to be a postdoctoral fellow with Stephen Kuffler. It was at Johns Hopkins where he met David Hubel in 1958, and they began working together on exploring the receptive field properties of neurons in the visual cortex. Their collaboration continued until the late seventies.Hubel and Wiesel’s work provided fundamental insight into information processing in the visual system and laid the foundation for the field of visual neuroscience. They have had many achievements, including—but not limited to—the discovery of orientation selectivity in visual cortex neurons and the characterization of the columnar organization of visual cortex through their discovery of orientation columns and ocular-dominance columns. Their work earned them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981, which they shared with Roger Sperry
David Rockefeller, Bass Family and Torsten Wiesel
No full textDavid Rockefeller, Bass Family, and Torsten Wiesel at Peggy Rockefeller Fountain, 2000https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/the-evolving-campus/1087/thumbnail.jp
A CELEBRATION IN HONOR OR TORSTEN N. WIESEL
No full textConcluding remarks by Torsten N. Wiesel
Photo by Lubosh Stepanekhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/celebration_torsten_wiesel/1039/thumbnail.jp
Arnold J. Levine, Torsten Wiesel, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller
No full textArnold J. Levine, Torsten Wiesel, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller, circa late 1990shttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1019/thumbnail.jp
Dinner Program in Honor of Dr. Torsten Wiesel, Part 1
No full textDinner program in honor of Dr. Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of his 80th birthday at Abby Dining Room on June 3rd, 2004.
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Maclyn McCarty, Richard Furlaud, and Torsten Wiesel
No full textMaclyn McCarty (center), Richard Furlaud (left), Torsten Wiesel (right) attend a dinner celebrating eight decades of clinical research at The Rockefeller University Hospital
Photo by Robert Reichert
See also News and Notes 1993, vol. 4, no. 8https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1008/thumbnail.jp
David Ho, Irene Diamond, Torsten Wiesel at ADARC Affiliation Signing
No full textDavid Ho (left), Irene Diamond, Torsten Wiesel (second from right) at ADARC affiliation signing in 1996
Photo by Robert Reicherthttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1014/thumbnail.jp
Dinner Program in Honor of Dr. Torsten Wiesel, Part 2
No full textDinner program in honor of Dr. Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the Abby Dining Room on June 3rd, 2004
Part 2: Closing remark
James Watson, Maclyn McCarty, and Torsten Wiesel
No full textTorsten Wiesel (right) with Professor Emeritus Maclyn McCarty (center), co-author of the paper with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, and James D. Watson, director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1994
Photo by Leif Carlsson
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery at The Rockefeller University that genes are made of DNA - considered by many to be the single most important biological discovery of the twentieth century - the university has kicked off a year-long series of events that were running through May 1994. The celebration was formally inaugurated in November 1993 with a lecture by Nobel laureate James D. Watson, best known for discovering the double-helical structure of DNA.
See also Search Winter 1994, vol. 4, no. 1https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1013/thumbnail.jp
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