Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi

male, deceased (1926)
craters of the Moon named after them, central nervous system, Italian, scientist, physician, psychiatric hospital…neuron, neuron doctrine
Camillo Golgi (July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician and scientist. Golgi was born in Corteno now Corteno Golgi, province of...
Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard

male, 83 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Johns Hopkins University alumni, Jewish, neuron, molecule, rockefeller university, cell
Dr. Greengard's interests have ranged from basic neural explorations to the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurological and...
Miguel Nicolelis

Miguel Nicolelis

male (North Carolina, United States)
University of São Paulo alumni, sao paulo, Duke University faculty, Greek-Brazilian, brain, monkey…neuron
Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, MD, PhD, (São Paulo, March 7, 1961) is a Brazilian physician and scientist, best known for his pioneering work in "...
Paul Churchland

Paul Churchland

male, 67 years old (La Jolla, California, United States)
University of Pittsburgh, neuron, caloric, vitalism, Neurophilosophy, University of California, San Diego
Paul Churchland (born 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego. He earned...
Terry Sejnowski

Terry Sejnowski

male (San Diego, California, United States)
professor, laboratory, computation, biology, Cognitive science, Computer engineering…neuron
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for...
Andrew Huxley

Andrew Huxley

male, 91 years old
Biophysicist, Knights Bachelor, Academic of Imperial College London, Hampstead, Order of Merit, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge…neuron
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel...
Luigi Galvani

Luigi Galvani

male, deceased (1798)
electricity, craters of the Moon named after them, physician, Italian, nerve cells, Neuroscientist…neuron
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1771, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched...
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

male, deceased (1998)
banbury, Oxfordshire, frog, sciatic nerve, FRS, Neuroscientist…neuron
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (born February 5, 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; died December 20, 1998) was a British physiologist and...
Franz Nissl

Franz Nissl

male, deceased (1919)
German, Neuroscientist, cortical, cerebral cortex, neuron, soma
Franz Nissl (September 9, 1860 - August 11, 1919) was a German neuropathologist. Born in Bavaria, he did his medical studies in Munich where he...
Ronald Melzack

Ronald Melzack

male, 80 years old (Quebec, Canada)
textbook, Psychologist, opiate, brain stem, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy…neuron
Ronald Melzack (born July 19, 1929, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian psychologist. After studying for his Ph.D. in 1954 with D. O. Hebb at McGill...