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Irving S. Bengelsdorf

JAMA. 1981;246(20):2316-2317.

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Although weighing only about 3 lb, the human brain is the most complex mechanism in the universe. Crammed within its relatively small volume of 1.5 L are hundreds of billions of individual neurons, many of which receive tens of thousands of connections from other neurons.

Efforts to decipher the architecture and function of these complex neuronal arrangements have intrigued and occupied neuroscientists for years. It is no surprise, therefore, that in Stockholm on Dec 10, three scientists who pioneered in the understanding of the human brain are to share the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

Roger Wolcott Sperry, born in Hartford, Conn, in 1913 and who received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1941, is to receive half of the prize (about $91,000). David Hunter Hubel, born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1926 and who received his MD from McGill University in 1951, and Torsten Nils Wiesel, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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