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1 nov 2013 · David Hunter Hubel was born in 1926 in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. As an undergraduate at McGill University, he majored in the honors program in mathematics and physics, in part, he said, because he preferred solving problems to learning facts. He was accepted both for graduate work in physics and medical school.
7 nov 2013 · David Hubel was a giant in our field, yet he was warm, friendly, and humble in person. He and Torsten Wiesel, following in the footsteps of their mentor Steve Kuffler, discovered fundamental principles of information processing in the brain and fundamental principles of how the brain wires itself up. I think many people in the field see David as a formidable figure, but since I saw him every ...
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"
25 set 2013 · David Hunter Hubel was born in Windsor, Ontario, on Feb. 27, 1926, to American parents. His father was a chemical engineer. Dr. Hubel grew up in Montreal, where his boyhood hobbies included chemistry.
Crepitio! Papà! Questi sono i suoni che i professori David Hubel e Torsten Wiesel sentito nei primi anni 1950 quando hanno registrato da neuroni nella corteccia visiva di un gatto, come si muovevano una linea luminosa attraverso la sua retina. Durante le loro registrazioni, hanno notato alcune cose interessanti: (1) i neuroni sparavano solo ...
David Hubel: The Person. By: Howard Akler. In 2009, almost 30 years after he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology, David Hubel looked back on his legendary career. “If I’m honest with myself,” he said, “certainly my main motivation all along has been curiosity.” Indeed, his scientific inquiries began well before he ever set foot in a lab.
24 set 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.
