- Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi (July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician and scientist. Golgi was born in Corteno now Corteno Golgi, province of Brescia, Italy. His father was a physician and district medical officer. Golgi studied medicine at University of Pavia, where he worked in the experimental pathology laboratory under Giulio Bizzozero, who elucidated the properties of bone marrow. He graduated in 1865. He spent much of his career studying the central nervous system. - Paul Greengard
Dr. Greengard's interests have ranged from basic neural explorations to the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. His quest has significantly advanced scientific understanding of the molecular basis of nerve-cell communication. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to elucidating how neurotransmitters work in signal transduction in the nervous system. * - Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, MD, PhD, (São Paulo, March 7, 1961) is a Brazilian physician and scientist, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm. - Paul Churchland
Paul Churchland (born 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Wilfrid Sellars. He is the husband of philosopher Patricia Churchland and particularly noted for his work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. He is a major proponent of eliminative materialism, which claims that everyday mental concepts such as beliefs, … - Terry Sejnowski
Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, … - Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses. - Luigi Galvani
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 when struck by a spark. He was a pioneer in modern obstetrics, and discovered that muscle and nerve cells produce electricity. - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (born February 5, 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; died December 20, 1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Andrew Fielding Huxley on the basis of nerve "action potentials," the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. - Franz Nissl
Franz Nissl (September 9, 1860 - August 11, 1919) was a German neuropathologist. Born in Bavaria, he did his medical studies in Munich where he became interested in the pathology of cortical neurons. He is best known for developing a histological stain which allowed for selective visualization of neuronal cell bodies throughout the brain, ushering a new era in neurocytology and neuropathology. He also did important work in psychiatry correlating changes in glial cells, … - Ronald Melzack
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 University in Montreal, he began to work with patients who suffered from "phantom limb" pain - people ... - Ladislav Tauc
Ladislav Tauc (b. 1926, d. 1999) was a French neuroscientist, and a pioneer in neuroethology and neuronal physiology. - Donald Olding Hebb
Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 - August 20, 1985) was a psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. He has been described as the father of neuropsychology and neural networks. - James Papez
Dr. James Papez (1883-1958) was an American neuroanatomist. Dr. Papez received his MD from the University of Minnesota College of Medicine and Surgery. He is most famous for his 1937 description of the Papez circuit which is a neural pathway in the brain thought to be involved in the cortical control of emotion. - Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (b. Lyon, France, October 2, 1835; d. Vendranges, France, March 22, 1922, French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of the myelin sheath and the nodes of Ranvier, subcellular structure which covers the axons of neurons. Ranvier studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in 1865. He founded a small private research laboratory with Victor André Cornil (1837-1908), and together they offered a course in histology to medical students. - Warren Sturgis McCulloch
Warren Sturgis McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician. Warren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange, New Jersey and studied at Yale (philosophy and psychology, A.B. degree in 1921) and Columbia (psychology, M.A. degree in 1923). Receiving his MD in 1927 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York he undertook an internship at Bellevue Hospital, New York before returning to academia in 1934. - Eric Richard Kandel
ERIC KANDEL , director of Columbia's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, takes us along the chain of biological events that create long-term memories, revealing how we stand at the brink of helping those who suffer from grave mental and memory disorders. - Marcos Guillen
Marcos Guillen is founder, president & CEO of Artificial Development, Inc. Artificial Development is building CCortex, a complete 20-billion neuron simulation of the human cortex and peripheral systems, on a 500-node supercomputer - the largest neural network created to date. Previously, Marcos was co-founder and CEO of Ran Networks and Red Internauta, two Spanish Internet Service Providers. Artificial Development, Inc. - Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Jan Evangelista Purkyně (also written Johannes Evangelists Purkinje was a Czech anatomist, patriot, and physiologist. Purkyně was born in Libochovice, Bohemia. In 1819 he graduated from the University of Prague with a degree in medicine, where he was appointed a Professor of Physiology after writing his doctoral dissertation. Working at the university, he discovered the Purkinje effect, … - Arthur van Gehuchten
Arthur Van (or van) Gehuchten (1861-1914 or 1915) was a Belgian anatomist, born at Antwerp. He was professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Leuven until the eruption of the War in Europe in 1914. He moved to England and taught biology at Cambridge University until his death. Van Gehuchten is especially known for his contributions to the theory of neurons. - Aristides Leão
Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão was one of the most noted Brazilian biologists and scientists, one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the discoverer of spreading depression, an electrophysiological phenomenon of the central nervous system, which received his name. Leão was born to an intellectual family in Rio de Janeiro. He started to study medicine at the University of São Paulo, but had to interrupt it, … - Edgar Adrian 1st Baron Adrian
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS (London, 30 November 1889 - 8 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. - Sergey Sheleg
Sergey V. Sheleg, M.D., Ph.D. is a Head Research Advisor of Innovative Biological Preservation Technologies LLC (I B P T LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona). Dr. Sheleg is a recognized researcher in the fields of neuro-oncology, pathogenesis of slow viral neuro-infection diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, etc.) and anoxic/hypoxic brain damage/brain death. - Neuron
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- Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Jason Becker
Jason Becker, (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16 he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released "Speed Metal Symphony" in 1987 and "Go Off!" in 1988. - Gianluca Signorini
Gianluca Signorini (born 17 March 1960 in Pisa - died 6 November 2002 in Pisa) was an Italian football (soccer) player, mostly known for his time spent at Genoa C.F.C.. Gianluca Signorini started his career playing for his home team, Pisa S.C. of Serie C1, and successively for Pietrasanta, Prato, Livorno, Ternana and Cavese before joining A.C. Parma, with Arrigo Sacchi as coach. He quickly became a key player for Parma, … - Scott Freeman
Scott John Freeman (June 9, 1954 - July 23, 2004) was an American economist. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983. Between undergraduate and graduate school he worked for the Peace Corps in Africa. Scott Freeman started his professional academic career at Boston College and was subsequently affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, the University of California, … - Marilyn Pryor
Marilyn Valeria Pryor (nee Lobb)(1937-2005) was a New Zealand conservative Catholic, anti-abortion activist, and served on the Executive Council of SPUC (the Society for Protection of the Unborn Child- now Voice for Life), as well as administrative roles for New Zealand's Thomas Cardinal Williams. She was also honoured for her services to her church through being made a Papal Dame of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great in 1996. She died of Motor Neuron Disease in 2005. - Joseph von Gerlach
Joseph von Gerlach (1820-1896) was a German professor of anatomy at the University of Erlangen. Gerlach was a pioneer of histological staining and anatomical microphotography. In 1858 Gerlach introduced carmine mixed with gelatin as an histological stain. Along with Camillo Golgi, he was a major proponent of the theory that the brain's nervous system consisted of processes of contiguous cells fused to create a massive meshed network. - Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (born October 6, 1836, Hehlen an der Weser, Braunschweig, Germany; died January 23, 1921, Berlin) was a German anatomist, famous for consolidating the neuron theory of organization of the nervous system and for naming the chromosome. He is also known through two anatomical structures of the human body which bear his name: Waldeyer's gland and Waldeyer's tonsillar ring (the lymphoid tissue ring of the nasopharynx). - Cyril Cusack
Cyril Cusack (November 26, 1910 - October 7, 1993) was an Irish actor. Born in Durban, Natal, South Africa he was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack was educated in Newbridge College, Newbridge, Co. - Linda B. Buck
Linda B. Buck, Ph.D., (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She and Richard Axel won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on olfactory receptors. In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors. - Richard Axel
Richard Axel, M.D. (born July 2, 1946, New York City) is an American scientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. - Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality. - John Allman
John Allman is a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California and a well recognized expert on primates, cognition and brain evolution. In 2000, Allman's laboratory reported indentification of a class of neurons - large spindle-shaped cells - unique to humans and our closest relatives, the great apes. The spindle neurons were first located in layer V of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and later found in the frontoinsular cortex. - Jerzy Konorski
Jerzy Konorski was a Polish biologist. He was a pupil of Ivan Pavlov. Best known for his study of "type II conditioned reflexes," or secondary conditioned reflexes, he introduced a new direction of research and established new theories concerning the physiology of the brain. Today, type II conditioned reflexes are known as instrumental actions, and Konorski is perhaps the most important pioneer in the study of instrumental conditioning.
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