Torsten Wiesel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 101 |
| Date of birth | June 3,1924 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Uppsala |
| Sweden | |
| Known for | Visual system |
| Spouse | Jean Stein |
| Job | Lecturer |
| Biologist | |
| Neurologist | |
| Books | Guatemala: Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case |
| The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences | |
| Colloquium on Vision: From Photon to Perception | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize | |
| National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
| Order of the Rising Sun | |
| Dickson Prize | |
| Education | Karolinska Institute |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 569693 |
Torsten Wiesel Life story
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.