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|religion = }} Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. Together with David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,〔 for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.〔David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel. ''Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration''. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0195176189〕 ==Career== Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children. In 1947, he began his scientific career in Carl Gustaf Bernhard's laboratory at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. He went on to teach in the Institute's department of physiology and worked in the child psychiatry unit of the Karolinska Hospital. In 1955 he moved to the United States to work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under Stephen Kuffler. Wiesel began a fellowship in ophthalmology, and in 1958 he became an assistant professor. That same year, he met David Hubel, beginning a collaboration that would last over twenty years. In 1959 Wiesel and Hubel moved to Harvard University. He became an instructor in pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, beginning a 24-year career with the university. He became professor in the new department of neurobiology in 1968 and its chair in 1971. In 1983, Wiesel joined the faculty of Rockefeller University as Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology. He was president of the university from 1991 to 1998.〔Angier, Natalie. ( "Acting President of Rockefeller U. to Stay at Least 3 More Years," ) ''New York Times.'' February 21, 1992; Sengupta, Somini. ( "Princeton Cancer Expert Is New Rockefeller U. President," ) ''New York Times.'' July 1, 1998.〕 At Rockefeller University he remains the director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior. From 2000-2009, Wiesel served as Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program,〔http://www.hfsp.org〕 an organization headquartered in Strasbourg, France, which supports international and interdisciplinary collaboration between investigators in the life sciences. Wiesel also has chaired the scientific advisory board of China's National Institute of Biological Science (NIBS)〔http://www.nibs.ac.cn/english/ NIBS〕 in Beijing, and co-chairs the board of governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). He is also member of the boards of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and an advisory board member of the European Brain Research Institute (EBRI).〔http://www.ebri.it/DOCUMENTO/672/en/go.aspx 〕 Wiesel has also served as chair of the board of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (1995–2001), president of the International Brain Research Organization (1998–2004). He was chair of the board of governors of the New York Academy of Sciences (2001–2006); and he was the academy's chairman and interim director in 2001-2002.〔Overbye, Dennis. ( "New York Academy of Sciences Elects a New Chief Executive," ) ''New York Times.'' November 19, 2002.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Torsten Wiesel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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