Editing Torsten Wiesel (section)

{{Short description|Swedish neuroscientist}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name              = Torsten Wiesel
| birth_name = Torsten Nils Wiesel
| image             =Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel in 2011 Photo by Markus Marcetic for Young Academy of Sweden (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Wiesel in 2010
| title         = President of [[Rockefeller University]]
| order         = 7th
| term_start    = 1991
| term_end      = 1998
| predecessor   = [[David Baltimore]]
| successor     = [[Arnold J. Levine]]
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1924|6|3|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Uppsala]], Sweden 
 |death_date        =
|death_place        =
| spouse = {{Unbulleted list
| {{marriage|Teeri Stenhammar|1956|1970|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Ann Yee|1973|1981|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|[[Jean Stein]]|1995|2007|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Lizette Mususa Reyes|2008}}
 }}
| children          = 1
| module            =
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  |work_institutions = {{Plainlist|
* [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]]
* [[Rockefeller University]]
* [[Harvard University]]}}
  |alma_mater        =[[Karolinska Institute]]
  |doctoral_advisor  =
  |doctoral_students =
  |known_for         = [[Visual system]]
  |prizes            ={{Plainlist|
* [[Karl Spencer Lashley Award]] {{small|(1977)}}
* [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] <small>(1978)</small>
* [[Dickson Prize]] {{small|(1980)}}
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] {{small|(1981)}}<ref name=jneuron>{{cite journal|author-link1=David H. Hubel
|last1=Hubel|first1=David|last2=Wiesel|first2=Torsten|title=David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel|journal= [[Neuron (journal)|Neuron]] |volume=75|issue=2|year=2012|pages=182–184|issn=0896-6273|doi=10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.002|pmid=22841302|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] {{small|(1982)}}<ref name=formemrs>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111104632/https://royalsociety.org/people/torsten-wiesel-12525/|archive-date=2015-11-11|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/torsten-wiesel-12525/|title=Professor Torsten Wiesel ForMemRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London}}</ref><ref name=royal/>
* [[National Medal of Science]]<ref name=wiesel-bio/> <small>(2005)</small>}}
  }}
}}

'''Torsten Nils Wiesel''' (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish [[Neurophysiology|neurophysiologist]]. With [[David H. Hubel]],<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Shatz | first1 = C. J. | title = David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013) Neuroscientist who helped to reveal how the brain processes visual information| doi = 10.1038/502625a | journal = Nature | volume = 502 | issue = 7473 | pages = 625 | year = 2013 | pmid =  24172972| title-link = David H. Hubel | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="HubelWiesel1959">{{cite journal|author-link1=David H. Hubel
|last1=Hubel|first1=D. H.|last2=Wiesel|first2=T. N.|title=Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex|journal=The Journal of Physiology|volume=148|issue=3|year=1959|pages=574–591|issn=0022-3751|doi=10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006308|pmid=14403679|pmc=1363130}}</ref><ref name="HubelWiesel1962">{{cite journal|author-link1=David H. Hubel
|last1=Hubel|first1=D. H.|last2=Wiesel|first2=T. N.|title=Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex|journal=The Journal of Physiology|volume=160|issue=1|year=1962|pages=106–154|issn=0022-3751|doi=10.1113/jphysiol.1962.sp006837|pmid=14449617|pmc=1359523}}</ref> he received the 1981 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]],<ref name=wiesel-bio/> for their discoveries concerning information processing in the [[visual system]]; the prize was shared with [[Roger W. Sperry]]<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Voneida | first1 = T. J. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1997.0025 | title = Roger Wolcott Sperry. 20 August 1913--17 April 1994: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1976 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 43 | pages = 463–470 | year = 1997 | doi-access = free }}</ref> for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.<ref>Multiple sources:
*[[David H. Hubel]], Torsten N. Wiesel. ''Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration''. Oxford University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0195176189}}
*{{Cite news
|pmid = 16997764
|last=Berlucchi
|first=Giovanni
|publication-date=Dec 2006
|year=2006
|title=Revisiting the 1981 Nobel Prize to Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of the centennial of the Prize to Golgi and Cajal.
|volume=15
|issue=4
|periodical=Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
|pages=369–75
|doi = 10.1080/09647040600639013
}}
*{{Cite news
|pmid = 7967753
|last1=Shampo
|first1=M A
|last2=Kyle
|first2=R A
|publication-date=Nov 1994
|year=1994
|title=Torsten Wiesel--Swedish neurobiologist wins Nobel Prize.
|volume=69
|issue=11
|periodical=Mayo Clin. Proc.
|pages=1026
|doi=10.1016/s0025-6196(12)61367-6
}}
*{{Cite news
|pmid = 7042494
|last=Korczyn
|first=A
|publication-date=Dec 15, 1981
|year=1981
|title=[Nobel prize winners in medicine--1981 (Torsten Wiesel, David Hubel)]
|volume=101
|issue=12
|periodical=Harefuah
|pages=378–9
}}
*{{Cite news
|last=Prasanna
|first=Venkhatesh V
|publication-date= Jan 12, 2011
|year=2011
|title=Do we learn to see?
|volume=16
|issue=1
|periodical=Resonance: Journal of Science Education
|pages=88–99|doi=10.1007/s12045-011-0013-4
}}</ref>