Torsten N. Wiesel (born 1924) was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the youngest of five children of Fritz Wiesel, chief psychiatrist at Beckomberga Hospital outside Stockholm. He trained in medicine, worked in the neurophysiology laboratory of Professor Carl Gustaf Bernhard at the Karolinska Institute, and in 1955 went to Stephen Kuffler's laboratory at the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins. With David Hubel he began a twenty year collaboration on the receptive field properties of cells in the central visual pathways, and in 1973 he became head of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
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I was born in Uppsala Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children.
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When my studies were completed I returned to Professor Bernhards’s laboratory at the Karolinska Institute in 1954 to do basic neurophysiological research.
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David Hubel joined the laboratory in 1968, and the two of us decided to explore the receptive field properties of cells in the central visual pathways. This marked the beginning of our twenty year collaboration.
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