Stephen William Kuffler ForMemRS was a pre-eminent Hungarian-American neurophysiologist.
Career
He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Neuroscience". He founded the Harvard Neurobiology department in 1966, and made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of vision, neural coding, and the neural implementation of behavior. In 1972, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
Achievements
Membership
Royal Society; Austrian Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Guggenheim Fellowship
Nobel Laureates Sir; Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.