Torsten Wiesel#
| Membership Number: | 1634 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
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
- Information processing in visual system
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
