Neuroscientists
Sweden Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi: winners of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work on the structure of the nervous system. |
Sweden Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the digestive system. Pavlov is also well known for his work on classical conditioning. | Sweden Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod: winners of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work on neurotransmitters. | France Jean Martin Charcot: founder of clinical neurology. |
Portugal Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz: winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work using leucotomy to treat psychosis. | Portugal Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz: winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work using leucotomy to treat psychosis. |
Portugal Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz: winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work using leucotomy to treat psychosis. |
USA Harvey Williams Cushing: early neurosurgeon who was the first to stimulate the human sensory cortex electrically. |
Yemen Galen: early Roman physician who studied the brain. |
Sweden Roger Wolcott Sperry: winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the specialization of the cerebral hemispheres. |
Sweden John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley: winners of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work on the ionic mechanisms of the nerve cell membrane. |
USA Harvey Washington Wiley: responsible for the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. |
Sweden Allvar Gullstrand: winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the optics of the eye. |
Austria Otto Loewi: winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses; discovered "Vagusstoff" (now known as the neurotransmitter called acetylcholine). |
Germany Hermann von Helmholtz: invented the ophthalmoscope. |
Germany Hermann von Helmholtz |
Germany Cecile Vogt: studied the layers of the cerebral cortex. |
Portugal Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz: winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work using leucotomy to treat psychosis. |
Soviet Union Ivan Pavlov: studied the conditioned reflexes. |
Soviet Union Avicenna: studied vision and the eye. |
Czechoslovakia Jan Evangelista Purkyne |
Italy Camillo Golgi: 1906 Nobel Prize winner for his work on the structure of the nervous system. |
Monaco Rene Descartes |
Belgium Andreas Vesalius |
Portugal Egas Moniz |
Malagasy Allvar Gullstrand: 1911 Nobel Prize winner for his work on the optics of the eye. |
Malagasy Charles Sherrington/Otto Loewi: 1932 Nobel Prize winner / 1936 Nobel Prize winner |
Austria Robert Barany: 1914 Nobel Prize winner for his work on the vestibular system. |
Russia Vladimir Behterev |
Soviet Union Vladimir Behterev |
Canada Wilder Penfield |
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