The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-09
"for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"
Affiliations:
- Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA, USA
Torsten N. Wiesel
Born: 1924-06-03 in Uppsala, Sweden
Gender: male
Field: Swedish neuroscientist
Biography
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.