Torsten wiesel biography of william

Swedish neuroscientist

Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel,^[5][6][7] he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,^[4] for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W.

Sperry^[8] for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.^[9]

Career

Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1924, the youngest of five children.

Torsten wiesel biography of william

In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. He went on to teach in the institute's department of physiology and worked in the child psychiatry unit of the Karolinska Hospital.

In 1955 he moved to the United States to work at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine under Stephen Kuffler. Wiesel began a fellowship in ophthalmology, and in 1958 he became an