Nobel Prize - Neuroscience

Nobel Prize -Neuroscience

Year of Award	Name(s)	Birth and Death Dates	Nationality/Citizenship	Field of Study
1906	Golgi, Camillo	7/7/1843 to 1/21/1926	Italian	Structure of the Nervous System
1906	Ramon y Cajal, Santiago	5/1/1852 to 10/18/1934	Spanish	Structure of the Nervous System
1911	Gullstrand, Allvar	6/5/1862 to 7/28/1930	Swedish	Optics of the Eye
1914	Barany, Robert	5/22/1876 to 4/8/1936	Austrian	Physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus
1927	Wagner-Jauregg, Julius	6/5/1862 to 7/28/1930	Austrian	Discovery of Malaria inoculation to treat dementia paralytica
1932	Adrian, Edgar Douglas	11/30/1889 to 8/4/1977	British	Function of neurons in sending messages
1932	Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir	11/27/1857 to 3/4/1952	British	Function of neurons in the brain and spinal cord
1936	Dale, Henry Hallett, Sir	6/9/1875 to 7/23/1968	British	Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
1936	Loewi, Otto	6/3/1875 to 12/25/1961	German, American Citizen	Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
1944	Erlanger, Joseph	1/5/1874 to 12/15/1965	American	Differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
1944	Gasser, Herbert Spencer	7/5/1888 to 5/11/1963	American	Differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
1949	Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetano Abreu Freire	11/29/1874 to 12/13/1955	Portuguese	Leucotomy for certain psychoses
1949	Hess, Walter Rudolph	3/17/1881 to 8/12/1973	Swiss	The "interbrain" (hypothalamus) used to control activity of internal organs
1957	Bovet, Daniel	3/23/1907 to 4/9/1992	Italian	Work on synthetic substances that inhibit action of bodysubstances.
1961	Von Bekesy, Georg	6/3/1899 to 6/13/1972	Hungarian, American Citizen	Function of the cochlea
1963	Eccles, JohnCarew, Sir	1/27/1903 to 5/2/1997	Australian	Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
	Hodgkin, AlanLloyd, Sir	2/5/1914 to	British	Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
	Huxley,Andrew Fielding, Sir	12/22/1917 to	British	Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
1967	Granit, Ragnar Arthur	10/30/1900 to 1991	Finnish, Swedish citizen	Mechanisms of Vision - Wavelength discrimination of the eye
	Hartline, Halden Keffer	12/22/1903 to 3/17/1983	American	Mechanisms of Vision
	Wald, George	11/18/1906 to 04/12/1997	American	Mechanisms of Vision - chemical processes
1970	Axelrod, Julius	5/30/1912 to	American	Humoral transmitters in sympathetic nerves
	Katz, Bernard, Sir	3/26/1911 to	German, British Citizen	Release of neurotransmitters from nerve terminals
	von Euler, Ulf Svante	2/7/1905 to 3/10/1983	Swedish	Humoral transmitters in sympathetic nerves
1973	Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias	11/7/1903 to 2/27/1989	Austrian	Ethology
	Tinbergen, Nikolaas	4/15/1907 to 12/21/1988	Dutch	Ethology
	von Frisch, Karl	11/20/1886 to 6/12/1982	Austrian	Ethology
1976	Blumberg, Baruch S.	7/28/1925 to	American	Mechanisms for origin and dissemination of infectiondisease
1976	Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton	9/9/1923 to	American	Mechanisms for origin and dissemination of infectiondisease
1977	Guillemin, Roger	1/11/1924 to	French, American Citizen	Production of peptides in the brain
1977	Schally, Andrew Victor	11/30/1926 to	Polish, Canadian/American Citizen	Production of peptides in the brain
1979	Cormack, Allan MacLeod	2/23/1924 to	South African, American Citizen	Invention of computer-assisted tomography
1979	Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold, Sir	8/28/1919 to	British	Invention of computer-assisted tomography
1981	Hubel, David Hunter	2/27/1926 to	Canadian, American Citizen	Information processing in the visual system
	Sperry,Roger Wolcott	8/20/1913 to 4/17/1994	American	Functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain
	Wiesel, Torsten N.	6/3/1924 to	Swedish, American Citizen	Information processing in the visual system
1982	Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar	5/21/1934 to	Swedish	Discovery of prostaglandins
	Vane, John Robert	3/29/1927	British	Discovery of prostaglandins
	Bergstrom,Sune K.	1/10/1916 to	Swedish	Discovery of prostaglandins
1986	Cohen, Stanley	12/17/1922 to	American	Control of nerve cell growth
1986	Levi-Montalcini,Rita	4/22/1909 to	Italian, American Citizen	Control of nerve cell growth
1991	Neher, Erwin	3/20/1944 to	German	Function of single ion channels in cells
1991	Sakmann, Bert	6/12/1942 to	German	Function of single ion channels in cells
1994	Gilman, Alfred G.	7/1/1941 to	American	Discovery of G-protein coupled receptors and their role insignal transduction
1994	Rodbell,Martin	12/1/1925 to 12/7/1998	American	Discovery of G-protein coupled receptors and their role insignal transduction
1997	Prusiner, StanleyB.	5/28/1942 to	American	Discovery of prions; a new biological principle ofinfection

Information on the 1997 Nobel Prize:

Nobel To PrionProfessor - from Access Excellence Site
PrusinerRecognized for Once-Heretical Prion Theory - from Science
NobelPrize Announcement

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