!!!Torsten Wiesel \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Wiesel_Torsten_Wiesel.jpg' alt='Torsten Wiesel' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ *Director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, President of Rockefeller University *1991 - 1998 President of Rockefeller University *1983 Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor, Rockefeller University and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology *1968 Professor, Department of neurobiology (Chair of Department 1971) *1959 Instructor in pharmacology, Harvard Medical School *1958 Assistant professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine *1955 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine *1954 Department of physiology and child psychiatry unit, Karolinska Institute \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *1971 Ferrier Medal and Lecture, Royal Society *1971 Dr. Jules C. Stein Award *1972 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award *1977 Karl Spencer Lashley Award *1975 Freidenwald Award *1978 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University *1980 Ledlie Prize *1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with David H. Hubel "''for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system''" (the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry) *1982 Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) *1989 W.H. Helmerich III Award *1993 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience *1996 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research *1998 Presidential Award *2005 David Rall Medal *2005 National Medal of Science *2006 Honorary degree, University of Pavia *2006 Ramon Y Cajal Gold Medal, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) *2007 Marshall M. Parks MD Medal of Excellence *2009 Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, (Japan) *2010 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Science, University of Cambodia \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Wiesel_Torsten/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Wiesel_Torsten/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Wiesel_Torsten/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Wiesel_Torsten/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit twiesel}] [{ALLOW upload twiesel}] [{ALLOW comment All}]