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Date of Birth
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27-February-1926
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Place of Birth
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Windsor
(Ontario, Essex County, Canada, Area codes 519 and 226)
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Nationality
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Canada, United States of America
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Also know as
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David Hunter Hubel
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Profession
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Neurophysiologist
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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.
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