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Torsten N. Wiesel
1981 Physiology or Medicine
* 1924 Uppsala
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.
2024 J. Giesen