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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. David H. Hubel | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | September 22, 2013 | | | | | | |
David Hubel received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Torsten Wiesel, for his pioneering work on the functioning of the visual system of mammals. His studies have shown how the visual cortex develops physiologically and how it records what the eye sees. This work has led to new understanding and treatment of childhood eye afflictions and to studies of cortical plasticity. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1926, Dr. Hubel received his M.D. from McGill University in 1951. He worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1952-59 and at Walter Reed Hospital, where he began comparing the activity of sensory cells in waking and sleeping animals. Dr. Hubel had been a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1959 and was Research Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard University at the time of his death. David Hubel died September 22, 2013, at age 87, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Beatrice Mintz | | | Institution: | Fox Chase Cancer Center | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 207. Genetics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | January 3, 2022 | | | | | | |
Beatrice Mintz is Jack Schultz Chair in Basic Science at the Fox Chase Cancer Center's Institute for Cancer Research, where she has been a senior memeber since 1965. Among her many scientific accomplishments, she is credited with the development of techniques for fusing mouse embryos of different genetic strains and the analysis of development using such allophenic animals. Dr. Mintz has also managed to reverse the malignancy of cancer cells by introducing them into the blastocyst of a genetically different mouse strain, whereupon the cancer cells take part in normal development of tissues and, over multiple generations, show no reversion to malignancy. Dr. Mintz's current research focuses on melanoma. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, she has also taught biology at the University of Chicago and medical genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1946. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. George D. Snell | | | Institution: | Jackson Lab | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 207. Genetics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 6/6/96 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Torsten Nils Wiesel | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 208. Plant Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | | | | |
Torsten Wiesel is a native of Sweden where he received an M.D. degree from the Karolinska Institute in 1954. In 1955, he joined the Johns Hopkins Medical School and in 1958 was named assistant professor in opthalmic physiology. In 1959, he joined Harvard Medical School and became Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology. He became the Robert Winthrop Professor in 1973. Dr. Wiesel's pioneering studies of the mammalian visual cortex have shaped current understanding of brain structure, function and development. Dr. Wiesel, with his long-time collaborator, Dr. David Hubel, received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. In 1983, he joined Rockefeller University as Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and was named the Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor. He became the seventh President of Rockefeller University in 1992 and President Emeritus and Director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior in 1998. Dr. Wiesel is a member of The National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as honorary degrees from universities in the United States and Europe. Recently he received the nation's highest honor in science: the 2005 National Medal of Science. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1982. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Vincent B. Wigglesworth | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 202. Cellular and Developmental Biology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1899 | | | Death Date: | 2/12/94 | | | | |
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