Background

Libet, Benjamin was born on April 12, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Morris and Anna Libet.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1939.

Career

Instructor physiology, Albany Medical College, 1939-1940; Research associate, Institute Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1940-1943; materials engineer personal equipment laboratory, United States Air Force, Wright Field, Ohio., 1944-1945; instructor physiology school medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1943-1944; instructor biological science, University of Chicago, 1945-1947; assistant professor physiology, University of Chicago, 1947-1948; director research, Kabat-Kaiser Institute, Vallejo, California, 1948-1949; from assistant to associate professor physiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1949-1962; professor physiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1962-1984; professor emeritus, University of California, San Francisco, since 1984.

Achievements

• Benjamin Libet has been listed as a noteworthy neuroscience educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Neurophysiology of Consciousness: selected papers and new essays (Contemporary Neuroscientists)

    (and made insignificant in practice, by selecting for stud...)

  • Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)

    ( Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us...)

  • Mind time; the temporal factor in consciousness.
  • Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness: 1st (First) Edition
  • (Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness) Author: Benjamin Libet published on (October, 2005)
  • Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience) by Libet, Benjamin (2005) Paperback

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society Neurosci., American Physiology Society.

Interests

• Classical and opera singing, mountain hiking.

Connections

Married Fay Rosella Evans, July 1, 1939. Children: Julian Mayer, Moreen Lea, Ralph Arnold, Gayla Bea.

Father:

Morris Libet

Mother:

Anna Libet

Spouse:

Fay Rosella Evans

child:

Ralph Arnold Libet

child:

Moreen Lea Libet

child:

Gayla Bea Libet

child:

Julian Mayer Libet