Editing Torsten Wiesel (section)

==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 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 1973.

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.<ref>Angier, Natalie. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/21/nyregion/acting-president-of-rockefeller-u-to-stay-at-least-3-more-years.html?scp=6&sq=torsten+wiesel+&st=nyt  "Acting President of Rockefeller U. to Stay at Least 3 More Years,"] ''New York Times.'' 21 February 1992; Sengupta, Somini. [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/princeton-cancer-expert-is-new-rockefeller-u-president.html?scp=16&sq=torsten+wiesel&st=nyt  "Princeton Cancer Expert Is New Rockefeller U. President,"] ''New York Times.'' 1 July 1998.</ref> At Rockefeller University he remains co-director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior.

From 2000 to 2009, Wiesel served as Secretary-General of the  Human Frontier Science Program,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hfsp.org |title = &#124; Human Frontier Science Program}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nibs.ac.cn/english/ |title=Nibs 北京生命科学研究所 |access-date=2009-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008195509/http://www.nibs.ac.cn/english/ |archive-date=2009-10-08 }}  NIBS</ref> 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).<ref>[http://www.ebri.it/DOCUMENTO/672/en/go.aspx] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104080657/http://www.ebri.it/DOCUMENTO/672/en/go.aspx|date=4 January 2010}}</ref>

Wiesel has also served as chair of the board of the [[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]] (1995–2001), president of the [[Society for Neuroscience]] (1978–1979), and 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.<ref>Overbye, Dennis. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/nyregion/new-york-academy-of-sciences-elects-a-new-chief-executive.html?scp=14&sq=torsten+wiesel&st=nyt  "New York Academy of Sciences Elects a New Chief Executive,"] ''New York Times.'' 19 November 2002.</ref>