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David H. Hubel
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David H. Hubel

Canadian neurophysiologist · born February 27, 1926 · died 2013

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David Hunter Hubel was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex.

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  1. ~52Received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1978
  2. ~55Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1981

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