Editing Torsten Wiesel (section)

==Personal life==
Wiesel is married to Lizette Mususa Reyes (m. 2008).<ref name=wiesel-bio/>  Wiesel was married to Teeri Stenhammar from 1956 to 1970, Ann Yee from 1973 to 1981,<ref name=wiesel-bio/> and author and editor [[Jean Stein]] from 1995 to 2007.<ref name=wiesel-bio/> His daughter Sara Elisabeth was born in 1975.<ref name=wiesel-bio/>

Wiesel [[Centenarian|turned 100]] on 3 June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-03 |title=Torsten Wiesel, 100 år av höjdpunkter |url=https://www.kva.se/nyheter/torsten-wiesel-100-ar-av-hojdpunkter/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien |language=sv-SE}}</ref>

===Human rights===
Wiesel has done much work as a global human rights advocate. He served for 10 years (1994–2004) as  chair of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|Committee of Human Rights of the National Academies of Science]] in the US, as well as the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.<ref name="bare_url">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel.html|title=Torsten N. Wiesel - Facts|website=nobelprize.org}}</ref> He was awarded the David Rall Medal from the [[Institute of Medicine]] in 2005, in recognition of this important work.{{citation needed|date=April 2009}}  In 2009, Wiesel was awarded the Grand Cordon Order of the Rising Sun Medal in Japan.

He is a founding member of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, a nongovernmental nonprofit established in 2004 to support collaborative research between scientists in Israel and Palestine.<ref name="bare_url" />