41. Nobel Prizes (table) Roger W. Sperry David H. Hubel torsten N. wiesel, Elias Canetti Celebratingthe Canadian heritage in nobel Prizes Canada s remarkable heritage in http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0835783.html

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42. AAAS - Report On Science And Human Rights torsten N. wiesel, PresidentEmeritus, Rockefeller University torsten wiesel In 1981 Professor wiesel shared the nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine http://shr.aaas.org/report/xxiv/tw_bio.htm

Log In Join Search Site Map ... Advanced search Quick Link AAAS Board AAAS Council Archives Awards Development Education Employment Events Governance International Media Relations Meeting Membership Organization Press Releases Science Report on Science and Human Rights Spring 2004 Vol XXIV, No. 1 Torsten N. Wiesel, President-Emeritus, Rockefeller University Biography Torsten N. Wiesel, President-Emeritus, Rockefeller University Torsten Wiesel received his M.D. from Karolinksa Institute in Sweden in 1954. He has been President-emeritus at Rockefeller University since 1998, when he stepped down after seven years of service as Rockefeller's president. Under his leadership 30 new laboratories conducting vanguard research in key areas of biology, chemistry and physics were added, and the renowned Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center joined with Rockefeller University in 1996. Professor Wiesel joined the Rockefeller faculty in 1983 to head a new laboratory of neurobiology, and later that year he was named the university's Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor. Prior to that he was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology. In 1998 Professor Wiesel was elected president of the International Brain Research Organization, which is based in Paris, and was named Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program in 2000. He also serves on numerous Boards, including Chair of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences.

43. Nobel Neurobiologist To Give Breinin Basic Science Lecture Neurobiologist torsten N. wiesel, a 1981 winner of the nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine, will present the inaugural lecture of the Emory School of http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1996/October/ERoct.14/10_14_96nobel.

Nobel neurobiologist to give Breinin basic science lecture Neurobiologist Torsten N. Wiesel, a 1981 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will present the inaugural lecture of the Emory School of Medicine's Goodwin and Rose Helen Breinin Visiting Professorship in the Basic Sciences on Monday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Harland Cinema, Dobbs Center. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the Winship Ballroom. Wiesel and his former associate, David H. Hubel of Harvard Medical School, shared the Nobel Prize for their studies on how information is transmitted from the retina to the visual cortex of the brain. In addition to shedding light on how the cerebral cortex is organized at the cellular level, their work has had significant clinical implications. In the 1960s and 1970s they demonstrated that vision may be permanently impaired if both eyes are not properly stimulated during a critical period shortly after birth, providing strong impetus for clinicians to treat children born with cataracts at the earliest possible age. Wiesel currently is president of The Rockefeller University and continues to conduct research on the organization and development of the central nervous system.

44. "Canadian Nobel Laureates" By Edward Willett just 10 years later, in 1981, David H. Hubel, born in Windsor, Ontario, sharedthe nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with torsten N. wiesel. http://www.edwardwillett.com/Columns/canadiannobels.htm

Web edwardwillett.com LIBRARY NAVIGATION SYSTEM Click on a CD to access data Home My featured science column My science fiction ... Contact me Canadian Nobel Laureates This is the time of year when the Nobel Prizes for science are awarded, and while there haven't been any Canadian winners this year, for a small country, Canada has been well represented in the awards in the past few yearsand can lay claim to one of the most important discoveries in medicine earlier this century. And within Canada, Saskatchewan is also well-represented for its size among these prestigious awards. A search of the Nobel Prizes' Web site (www.nobel.se) for the word Canada turns up more than 90 entries. In all, 10 Nobel Laureates are Canadian or are closely identified with Canada; many more studied, grew up or taught here in the course of careers that may have taken them all over the world. Just two years later in 1983, Henry Taube, whom the Nobel committee called "one of the most creative contemporary workers in inorganic chemistry," won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Putatively, it was for "his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes," which sounds rather esoteric, but has practical use in many fieldseven biochemistry, where his discoveries are playing an important role in the study of respiration.. In any event, as one of his nominators pointed out, Taube has made at least 18 major discoveries in chemistry.

45. Access To Articles : Nature by David H. Hubel and torsten N. wiesel Recognition David Hubel (left)and torsten wiesel won a nobel prize for their work in 1981. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/full/4341069a.html

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46. Nobel Prize For Medicine nobel Prize for Medicine. HONOR. nobel Prize for Medicine. 1901. Emil von Behring.1902 Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, torsten N. wiesel. 1982 http://www.nndb.com/honors/214/000068010/

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47. The Prize For academics and institutions, a nobel Prize is used to attract the best andthe brightest 1981 Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, torsten N. wiesel http://www.hosted-webs.com/prize/

hosted by hosted-webs.com HISTORY of NOBEL PRIZE Winning a Nobel Prize is a life-changing honor. Whether the laureate is an internationally known figure (such as Nelson Mandela, winner of the 1993 Peace Prize) or a scientist plucked from obscurity (like Richard R. Ernst, who won the 1991 prize in chemistry for refinements in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy), the award brings with it worldwide recognition that highlights one's life work and provides the funds to continue and further the mission. For academics and institutions, a Nobel Prize is used to attract the best and the brightest minds, whether students or scholars. ALFRED B. NOBEL Alfred B. Nobel (1833–1896), the Swedish chemist and engineer who invented dynamite, left $9 million in his will to establish the Nobel Prizes, which are awarded annually, without regard to nationality, in six areas (peace, literature, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and economic science) "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." At first glance, it seems odd that the inventor of a powerful explosive would endow a group of awards that includes a peace prize. But Nobel was an industrialist with a conscience. He is credited with creating a controllable combustible that made blasting rock and the construction of canals and tunnels a relatively safe process. Nobel also contributed to the inventions of synthetic rubber, artificial silk, and synthetic leather. He held more than 350 patents. His interests were not limited to science. In fact, he was a lover of English literature and poetry and wrote several novels and poems. At his death, he left a library of more than 1,500 books, from fiction to philosophy.

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49. Robert F Kennedy Memorial 1995 nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Charles H. Townes 1964 nobel Laureate in Physics.torsten N. wiesel 1981 nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine http://www.rfkmemorial.org/human_rights/1995_Que/Nobel_Laureates_Appeal_for_Que.

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50. List Of Nobel Prizes - Columbia Encyclopedia® Article About List Of Nobel Prize Information about List of nobel Prizes in the Columbia Encyclopedia®. Roger W.Sperry David H. Hubel torsten N. wiesel, Elias Canetti http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/List of Nobel Prizes

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51. Índice Alfabético De Los Premios Nobel De Fisiología O Medicina (1901-1998) Índice alfabético de los Premios nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (19011998)* WIESCHAUS, Eric F. (1995) wiesel, torsten N. (1981) http://www.bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/vol_2_99/his12299.htm

Indice Anterior Siguiente Formato .PDF ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas (1932) ARBER, Werner (1978) AXELROD, Julius (1970) BALTIMORE, David (1975) BANTING, Frederick Grant (1923) BEADLE, Georges Wells (1958) BEHRING, Emil Adolf von (1901) BENACERRAF, Baruj (1980) BISHOP, Michael John (1989) BLACK, James Whyte (1988) BLOCH, Konrad Emil (1964) BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1976) BORDET, Jules Jean Baptiste Vicent (1919) BOVET, Daniel (1957) BROWN, Michael Stuart (1985) BURNET, Frank Macfarlane (1960) CARREL, Alexis (1912) CHAIN, Ernest Boris (1945) CLAUDE, Albert (1974) COHEN, Stanley (1986) CORI, Carl Ferdinand (1947) CORI, Gerty Theresa Radnitz (1947) CORMACK, Allan MacLeod (1979) CRICK, Francis Harry Compton (1962) DALE, Henry Hallet (1936) DAM, Henrik Carl Peter (1943) DAUSSET, Jean (1980) DOHERTY, Peter C. (1996) DOISY, Edward Adelbert (1943) DOMAGK, Gerhard (1939) DULBECCO, Renato (1975) ECCLES, John Carew (1963) EDELMAN, Gerald Maurice (1972) EHRLICH, Paul (1908) EIJKMAN, Christiaan (1929) EINTHOVEN, Willem (1924) ELION, Gertrude Belle (1988) ENDERS, John Franklin (1954)

52. AAMC Reporter: Nobel Laureates Gather At Annual Meeting To Speculate On The Futu The nobel Laureate panel was rounded out by torsten N. wiesel, MD, professoremeritus at Rockefeller University, who was recognized in 1981 for his http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/dec01/researchroundtable.htm

Home Government Affairs Newsroom Meetings ... Annual Meeting Speakers Connect Past with Future Nobel Laureates Speculate on Future of Medical Education Women Physicians and the Pioneers who Followed Them On the Home Front: Military Med Students A Word from the President Reporter Archive AAMC Newsroom Reporter Staff: Managing Editor Robert Jacobson rjacobson@aamc.org Staff Writers Scott Harris sharris@aamc.org Whitney L.J. Howell whowell@aamc.org Nobel Laureates Gather at Annual Meeting to Speculate on the Future of Medical Education By Barbara A. Gabriel Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Science magazine, moderated a group discussion among four Nobel Laureates at the AAMC's 112th Annual Meeting that addressed pressing issues in medical education. Moderated by Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Science , a lively discussion among four Nobel Laureates on Nov. 5 at the AAMC's Annual Meeting revolved around issues ranging from the impact of the Human Genome Project on medical education to the need to promote student interest in scientific study. David Baltimore, Ph.D., president of the California Institute of Technology and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell, emphasized the need to bring "the enormous strength of the range of American science" to bear on the study of genomics in the wake of the Human Genome Project. He noted the need for interdisciplinary study in this area, including the work of non-medical schools. When the discussion turned to the recent threat of bioterrorism, Dr. Baltimore called for a "credible national voice" to communicate health information to the public. Americans would be put more at ease, said Dr. Baltimore, by a respected medical leader than by politicians who, though well-meaning, lack medical expertise.

53. Bowdoin To Award Five Honorary Degrees At 199th Commencement May , Campus News ( torsten N. wiesel, president emeritus of The Rockefeller University and In 1981 while at Harvard wiesel received the nobel Prize in medicine for his http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001413.shtml

@import "/includes/global_new/base.css"; @import "/includes/global_new/newsdetails.css"; Skip Navigation and go to content You may be using a browser that will cause viewing problems on our web site... please visit our browser upgrade page to learn more. A-Z Index Directory Help ... Prospective Students Location: Bowdoin Campus News News Campus News Summer Research at Bowdoin Academic Spotlight ... Classifieds Events Featured Events Events Calendar Search Events Calendar Exhibits ... WBOR Bowdoin to Award Five Honorary Degrees at 199th Commencement May 29 Go to Campus News Go to Academic Spotlight Story posted March 12, 2004 Bowdoin College will award five honorary degrees at its 199th Commencement exercises Saturday, May 29. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on the campus quad in front of the Walker Art Building. Honorary degrees will be awarded to: Eavan Boland , Irish poet and Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities and Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in Humanities (director of the creative writing program) at Stanford University: Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree. Richard Goldstone , former South African Constitutional Court Justice and champion of international justice and human rights: Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree.

54. Goldstone, Wiesel Address Issues Of Human Rights At Panel Discuss, Campus News ( Justice Richard J. Goldstone and Dr. torsten N. wiesel, two of Bowdoin s wiesel is president emeritus of The Rockefeller University and a nobel Prize http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001464.shtml

@import "/includes/global_new/base.css"; @import "/includes/global_new/newsdetails.css"; Skip Navigation and go to content You may be using a browser that will cause viewing problems on our web site... please visit our browser upgrade page to learn more. A-Z Index Directory Help ... Prospective Students Location: Bowdoin Campus News News Campus News Summer Research at Bowdoin Academic Spotlight ... Classifieds Events Featured Events Events Calendar Search Events Calendar Exhibits ... WBOR Goldstone, Wiesel Address Issues of Human Rights at Panel Discussion Go to Campus News Go to Academic Spotlight Story posted May 28, 2004 May 28, 2004 Justice Richard J. Goldstone and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, two of Bowdoin's distinguished Honorary Degree recipients for 2004, presented a public panel discussion today on international human rights issues. Goldstone is former South African Constitutional Court Justice, champion of international justice and human rights, and the world's first international war crimes prosecutor. Wiesel is president emeritus of The Rockefeller University and a Nobel Prize winner in medicine. Since 1994 he has served as chair of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Human Rights, and he is a member and former chair of the Human Rights Watch, Arms Division. As Bowdoin Dean for Academic Affairs Craig McEwen said in introducing Goldstone and Wiesel, "Here at Bowdoin, we're all familiar with one of the guiding principles of the College, a commitment to 'The Common Good.' Justice Goldstone's and Dr. Wiesel's involvement, dedication, and leadership in the areas of human rights and medicine – their commitment to The Common Good – have benefited humankind."

55. Nobel Prize-winning Vision Researcher, Cell Migration Expert To Speak To Syracus Hubel and colleague torsten N. wiesel were awarded the 1981 nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the visual system. http://www.ecs.syr.edu/news_detail.asp?IDin=163&year=2005

56. Hobart And William Smith Colleges :: News Releases Geneva, NY — torsten N. wiesel received the nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicinein 1981 for his discoveries concerning information processing in the http://www.hws.edu/news/update/showrelease.asp?id=498

57. SIMR - Centenary Survey Of Nobel Laureates nobel Prize Winners in Physiology and Medicine (1980 1989) 1981 Roger W.SPERRY, David H. HUBEL and torsten N. wiesel - describe the processing of http://www.simr.org.uk/pages/nobel/time_line_9.html

Home Biotechnology Celebrity support Benefits of animal research ... Links Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology and Medicine (1980 - 1989) Alfred Bernhard Nobel Nobel Survey Index Photo: Wellcome Institute Library The Timeline "Now, more than ever, research with laboratory animals is required to bring the benefits of advances in molecular genetics, neuroscience, and other highly productive fields to clinical application through the study of intact organisms." - Harold E. Varmus, Nobel Prizewinner 1989 Baruj BENACERRAF, Jean DAUSSETT and George D. SNELL - describe histocompatibility antigens and the regulation of immunological reactions. Roger W. SPERRY, David H. HUBEL and Torsten N. WIESEL - describe the processing of visual information by the brain. Sune K. BERGSTRÖM, Bengi I. SAMUELSON and Sir John R. VANE - discover the prostaglandin group of hormone-like compounds found in all animals. Barbara McCLINTOCK - studies maize and finds chromosomes can sometimes transfer segments from one to another.

58. Essays On Winners Of The Nobel Prize: The 1991 nobel Prize Winnersfrom Patch Clamps (Neher and Sakmann) to Physiology or Medicine Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, torsten N. wiesel http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/prize/nobelwinners.html

Essays on Winners of the Nobel Prize: 'Of Nobel Class': Part 1. An Overview of ISI Studies on Highly Cited Authors and Nobel Laureates. Essays/Vol:15, #33, p.116, August 17, 1992. Eugene Garfield and Alfred Welljams-Dorof. "Of Nobel Class: A Citation Perspective on High Impact Research Authors" Theor. Med. 13(2): 117-35, June 1992. Essays/Vol:15, p.118, 1992 Eugene Garfield and Alfred Welljams-Dorof. "Of Nobel Class: A Citation Perspective on High Impact Research Authors (Part 2)" Theor. Med. 13(2): 117-35, June 1992. Essays/Vol:15, p.128, 1992. Theoretical Medicine's Special Issue on the Nobel Prizes and Their Effect on Science. Essays/Vol:15, #37, p.137, September 14, 1992. B.I.B. Lindahl, "Discovery, Theory Change, and the Nobel Prize: On the Mechanisms of Scientific Evolution. An Introduction." Theor. Med (whole issue) 13(2): 97-231, 1992. Essays/Vol:15, p.140, 1992-93 The 1991 Nobel Prize Winnersfrom Patch Clamps (Neher and Sakmann) to Spaghetti Theory (de Gennes), Social Costs (Coase), and NMR (Ernst)Were All Citation Superstars. Essays/Vol:15, #5, p.12, February 3, 1992.

59. Nobel Laureates Call For Action On Global Warming At The Kyoto Climate Summit torsten N. wiesel, USA. Physiology/Medicine 1981 * Robert W. Wilson, USA.Physics 1978 Lars Gyllensten, Former Chair, The nobel Foundation http://dieoff.org/page123.htm

Home WORLD SCIENTISTS' CALL FOR ACTION AT THE KYOTO CLIMATE SUMMIT Five years ago, in the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity , 1600 of the world's senior scientists sounded an unprecedented warning: Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms. Addressed to political, industrial, religious, and scientific leaders, the Warning demonstrated that the scientific community had reached a consensus that grave threats imperil the future of humanity and the global environment. However, over four years have passed, and progress has been woefully inadequate. Some of the most serious problems have worsened. Invaluable time has been squandered because so few leaders have risen to the challenge. The December 1997 Climate Summit in Kyoto, Japan, presents a unique opportunity. The world's political leaders can demonstrate a new commitment to the protection of the environment. The goal is to strengthen the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change by agreeing to effective controls on human practices affecting climate. This they can and must do, primarily by augmenting the Convention's voluntary measures with legally binding commitments to reduce industrial nations' emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly below 1990 levels in accordance with a near-term timetable.

60. The Heidelberg Appeal Elie wiesel, nobel Prize (Peace), University of Boston LiteratureUSA; * torsten N.wiesel, nobel Prize (Medicine), Professor, Lab of Neurobiology, http://www.sepp.org/heidelberg_appeal.html

The Heidelberg Appeal Background The Heidelberg Appeal was publicly released at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. By the end of the 1992 summit, 425 scientists and other intellectual leaders had signed the appeal. Since then, word of mouth has prompted hundreds more scientists to lend their support. Today, more than 4,000 signatories, including 72 Nobel Prize winners, from 106 countries have signed it. In spite of this spontaneous and growing support from the world's scientific community, the Heidelberg Appeal has received little media attention. Neither a statement of corporate interests nor a denial of environmental problems, the Heidelberg Appeal is a quiet call for reason and a recognition of scientific progress as the solution to, not the cause of, the health and environmental problems that we face. The Appeal expresses a conviction that modern society is the best equipped in human history to solve the world's ills, provided that they do not sacrifice science, intellectual honesty, and common sense to political opportunism and irrational fears.

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