Background
Konishi, Masakazu was born on February 17, 1933 in Kyoto, Japan.
小西 正一
biologist university professor
Konishi, Masakazu was born on February 17, 1933 in Kyoto, Japan.
Bachelor of Science, Hokkaido U., Japan, 1956; Master of Science, Hokkaido U., Japan, 1958; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hokkaido U., Japan, 1991; Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1963.
After growing up in wartime Kyoto, Konishi moved to study at Sapporo Agricultural College, Hokkaido University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in 1985. The NAS membership directory notes that "Konishi is a world leader in linking ethology and neurophysiology.
He has shown the crucial role of auditory feedback in bird songs, has elucidated the role of sound frequency and spatial characteristics in auditory localization by barn owl, and has discovered the role of hormones in early differentiation of vocal control areas in the male avian brain." J. M. S. L., Viete, S., J. Viete, S. and L. and J. Saberi, K. and Farahbod, H. and Schmidt, M. and Nature Saberi, K., Takahashi, Y., , Albeck, Y., Arthur, B. Schmidt, M. and Nature H. Saberi, K.,Takahashi, Y. and Farahbod, H. and J. L. and J. and A. and Op.
Recipient David Sparks award in Integrative Neurophysiology U. Alabama, 1992, Charles A. Dana award for Pioneering Achievements in Health andEdn., 1992, Science Writing prize Acoustical Society American, 1994.
