Awards & Winners

David H. Hubel

Date of Birth 27-February-1926
Place of Birth Windsor
(Ontario, Essex County, Canada, Area codes 519 and 226)
Nationality Canada, United States of America
Also know as David Hunter Hubel
Profession Neurophysiologist
David Hunter Hubel was a Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. For much of his career, Hubel was the John Franklin Enders University Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1978, Hubel and Wiesel were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

Awards by David H. Hubel

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1981


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.)