Editing Torsten Wiesel (section)

==Awards and honors==
Wiesel is a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/eng/contact/searchcontacts/detail.asp?PersonID=3087|title=The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Torsten Wiesel|access-date=2009-05-01}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> and a foreign fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} He also holds the following awards and honors:

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* Honorary degree, [[University of Pavia]] in 2006.
* [[Order of the Rising Sun|Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon]], 2009 (Japan).<ref name="mofa2009">[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], [http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2009/11/04/2009_Autumn_Conferment_of_Decorations_on_Foreign_Nationals.pdf  "2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 1.]</ref>
* Honorary Doctoral Degree in Science, [[University of Cambodia]] in 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uc.edu.kh/ucb/List%20of%20Honorary%20Doctorates%20%282004%20-%202014%29/2015-07-22%2006:45:24/1889/=The|title=University of Cambodia|access-date=7 May 2018}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981<ref name=jneuron/>
* [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] from [[Columbia University]],  in 1978{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
* Elected a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1967<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/torsten-nils-wiesel|title=Torsten Nils Wiesel }}</ref>
* Dr. Jules C. Stein Award<ref name=wiesel-bio>{{cite web|title=Torsten N. Wiesel - Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel-bio.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=2015-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709140148/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel-bio.html|archive-date=2015-07-09}}</ref> in 1971
* [[Ferrier Lecture|Ferrier Medal and Lecture]] from the [[Royal Society]] in 1971
* [[Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award]]<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1972
* Freidenwald Award<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1975
* [[Karl Spencer Lashley Award]]<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1977
* Ledlie Prize<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1980
* Elected a member of the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1980<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/45883.html|title=Torsten N. Wiesel }}</ref>
* Elected a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1982<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Torsten+Wiesel&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced| title=APS Member History }}</ref>
* Elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1982|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1982]]<ref name=formemrs/><ref name=royal>{{cite web |title=Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660-2015 |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml |publisher=[[Royal Society]] |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml |archive-date=2015-10-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* W.H. Helmerich III Award<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1989
* [[Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience]] in 1993
* Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1996
* Presidential Award<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 1998
* David Rall Medal<ref>{{cite web|title=David Rall Award Recipients|url=http://iom.nationalacademies.org/Activities/PublicHealth/MemberAwards/RallAwardRecipients.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111214953/http://iom.nationalacademies.org/Activities/PublicHealth/MemberAwards/RallAwardRecipients.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 November 2015|website=iom.nationalacademies.org|access-date=21 October 2015}}</ref>  in 2005
* [[National Medal of Science]] in 2005 (US).<ref name="nei2007"/>
* Marshall M. Parks MD Medal of Excellence<ref name=wiesel-bio/> in 2007
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In 2001, Wiesel was nominated for a position on an advisory panel in the [[National Institutes of Health]] to advise on assisting research in developing countries. Republican [[Tommy Thompson]], who at the time was Secretary of Health and Human Services, rejected Wiesel. In addition to Wiesel, Thompson's office rejected another 18 (out of 26) nominations and in return recommended other scientists that [[whistleblower]] Gerald Keusch described in an interview as "lightweights" with "no scientific credibility". When Wiesel's name was rejected, an official in Thompson's office told Keusch that Wiesel had "signed too many full-page letters in The New York Times critical of President Bush." This incident was cited by the advocacy group [[Union of Concerned Scientists]] as part of a report detailing their allegations of abuse of science under President [[George W. Bush]]'s administration.<ref name=Marris>{{cite journal |author=Emma Marris |title=Bush accused of trying to foist favourites on health agency |journal=Nature |volume=430 |issue=281 |doi=10.1038/430281a |date=14 July 2004 |pages=281 |pmid=15254502|bibcode=2004Natur.430..281M |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Shulman>{{cite book |title=Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration |author=Seth Shulman |year=2007 |publisher=University of California Press}}</ref>

Wiesel was among the eight 2005 recipients of the [[National Medal of Science]].<ref name="nei2007">National Eye Institute: [http://www.nei.nih.gov/news/briefs/medals.asp  "NEI Grantees Receive National Medals of Science,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924055032/http://www.nei.nih.gov/news/briefs/medals.asp |date=2009-09-24 }} 2007.</ref> In 2006, he was awarded the Ramon Y Cajal Gold Medal from the [[Spanish National Research Council]] (CSIC - ''Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas''). In 2007, both Wiesel and Hubel were awarded the Marshall M. Parks, MD Medal from The Children's Eye Foundation.