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...Medical School professors last week won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on how the brain processes visual information. Dr. David H. Hubel '55, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, shared the award with Dr. Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code...
Kuffler, "one of the world's most eminent scientists studying the nervous sytem" made advances of fundamental importance to present understanding of the brain and transmission of impulses in the nervous system, Torsten N. Wiesel, chairman of the department of neurobiology at Harvard, said in a statement issued Sunday...
Recent experiments with animals led McMahon and Greene to apply their methods to eyes. Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Elio Raviola, professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, did experiments in which they forced monkeys to read, and found that they quickly developed myopia. Dr. J. Wallman at New York University discovered that chickens, when forced with blinders to look straight ahead instead of sideways as they normally do, also become near-sighted. These results indicate that myopia can be induced. Further, because the animals' eyes degenerated at similar rates, which can be computed mathematically, McMahon...
...David M. Hubel, Berry Professor of Neurobiology and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, Professor of Neurobiology, received the Trustees Award presented by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. (RPB). The award was established in 1966 to recognize "extraordinary scientific contributions to the science of ophthalmology...
...Medical Sciences refuse to send representatives to the committee set up by President Pusey to handle future emergencies. The composition and origin of this committee make it unlikely that it will be responsive to the entire University community. Zach W. Hall John Nicholls Mario Capecchi Dennis Gould Harold Amos Torsten Wiesel Jonathan Beckwith Michael A. Bratt Luigi Gorini Edwin J. Furshpan David D. Potter