Awards & Winners

Torsten Wiesel

Date of Birth 03-June-1924
Place of Birth Uppsala
(Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. Together 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.

Awards by Torsten Wiesel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Torsten Wiesel.

2005


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For providing key insights into the operation of the visual system and for the discovery of the manner in which neural connections in the brain are made during development and how they are maintained.)

1981


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