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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981

"for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
"for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"
Roger W. Sperry David H. Hubel Torsten N. Wiesel
Roger W. Sperry David H. Hubel Torsten N. Wiesel
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USA USA Sweden
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA		 Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA		 Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
b. 1913
d. 1994		 b. 1926
(in Windsor, ON, Canada)		 b. 1924
 
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