Name
|
Lifetime
|
Nationality
|
Awards or eponymous
|
Larry Abbott
|
1950–
|
United States
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2013.[1]
|
Susan Ackerman
|
|
United States
|
|
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
|
1850–1921
|
Poland
|
Artery of Adamkiewicz
|
Edgar Douglas Adrian
|
1889–1977
|
United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1932.[2]
|
Patrick Aebischer
|
1954–
|
Switzerland
|
|
George Aghajanian
|
1932–2023
|
Lebanon
|
|
Huda Akil
|
1945–
|
Syria
|
|
Alcmaeon of Croton
|
c.510 BCE
|
Italy
|
|
Giovanni Aldini
|
1762–1834
|
Italy
|
|
Richard W. Aldrich
|
|
United States
|
|
John Allman
|
|
United States
|
|
Alois Alzheimer
|
1864–1915
|
Germany
|
Alzheimer's disease
|
David Amaral
|
1950–
|
United States
|
|
Katrin Amunts
|
1962–
|
Germany
|
|
Per Andersen
|
1930–2020
|
Norway
|
|
Richard A. Andersen
|
1950–
|
United States
|
|
David J. Anderson
|
1956–
|
United States
|
|
Dora E. Angelaki
|
|
Crete
|
|
Pyotr Anokhin
|
1898–1974
|
Russia
|
|
Julius Caesar Aranzi
|
1529/1530–1589
|
Italy
|
|
Silvia Arber
|
1968–
|
Switzerland
|
W. Alden Spencer Award-2018
|
Clay Armstrong
|
1934–
|
United States
|
|
Friedrich Arnold
|
1803–1890
|
Germany
|
Arnold's nerve
|
Harden Askenasy
|
1908–1975
|
Israel
|
|
Leopold Auerbach
|
1828–1897
|
Germany
|
Auerbach's plexus
|
Richard Axel
|
1946–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2004.[3]
|
Julius Axelrod
|
1912–2004
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1970.[4]
|
Paul Bach-y-Rita
|
1934–2006
|
United States
|
|
Herman S. Bachelard
|
1929–2006
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Jules Baillarger
|
1809–1890
|
France
|
Bands of Baillarger
|
Róbert Bárány
|
1876–1936
|
Austria-Hungary
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1914.[5]
|
Cornelia Bargmann
|
1961–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2012.,[6] Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2013.[7]
|
Ben Barres
|
1954–2017
|
United States
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2016
|
Jessica Barson
|
fl.2000-2020
|
United States
|
|
Danielle Bassett
|
1981–
|
United States
|
|
Adolf Beck
|
1863–1942
|
Poland
|
|
Georg von Békésy
|
1899–1972
|
Hungary
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1961.[8]
|
Vladimir Bekhterev
|
1857–1927
|
Russia
|
Bekhterev's nucleus, Bekhterev–Mendel reflex
|
Sir Charles Bell
|
1774–1842
|
United Kingdom
|
Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, Bell–Magendie law
|
Alim Louis Benabid
|
1942–
|
France
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2015.[9]
|
April A. Benasich
|
|
|
|
C. Frank Bennett
|
|
United States
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2019
|
Seymour Benzer
|
1921–2007
|
United States
|
|
Heather A. Berlin
|
|
United States
|
|
Julius Bernstein
|
1839–1917
|
Germany
|
Bernstein Network
|
Vladimir Betz
|
1834–1894
|
Ukrainian
|
Betz cell
|
Albert von Bezold
|
1836–1868
|
Germany
|
Bezold–Jarisch reflex
|
Mayim Bialik
|
1975–
|
United States
|
|
Elisabeth Binder
|
|
Austria
|
|
Emilio Bizzi
|
1933–
|
Italy
|
|
Timothy Bliss
|
1940–
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2016.[10]
|
Ned Block
|
1942–
|
United States
|
|
Hal Blumenfeld
|
1962–
|
United States
|
|
Herman Boerhaave
|
1668–1738
|
Netherlands
|
|
Nancy Bonini
|
1959–
|
United States
|
|
Azad Bonni
|
1963–
|
Canada - United States
|
|
Daniel Bovet
|
1907–1992
|
Switzerland
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1957.[11]
|
Edward Boyden
|
1979–
|
United States
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2016.,[12] The Brain Prize - 2013.[13]
|
Heiko Braak
|
1937–
|
Germany
|
Braak staging
|
Joseph V. Brady
|
1922–2011
|
United States
|
|
Josef Breuer
|
1842–1925
|
Austria
|
Hering–Breuer reflex
|
Paul Broca
|
1824–1880
|
France
|
Broca's area, Broca's aphasia
|
Alf Brodal
|
1910–1988
|
Norway
|
|
Korbinian Brodmann
|
1868–1918
|
Germany
|
Brodmann area
|
Michaela Brohm-Badry
|
1962–
|
Germany
|
|
Thomas Graham Brown
|
1882–1965
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
|
1817–1894
|
Mauritian
|
Brown-Séquard syndrome
|
Nathaniel A. Buchwald
|
1924–2006
|
United States
|
|
Linda B. Buck
|
1947–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2004.[14]
|
Paul Bucy
|
1904–1992
|
United States
|
Klüver–Bucy syndrome
|
Ludwig Julius Budge
|
1811–1888
|
Germany
|
Budge's center
|
György Buzsáki
|
1949–
|
Hungary
|
The Brain Prize - 2011.[15] Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2020
|
John T. Cacioppo
|
1951–2018
|
United States
|
|
Leopoldo Caldani
|
1725–1813
|
Italy
|
|
Donald Calne
|
1936–
|
Canada
|
|
Matteo Carandini
|
1967–
|
Italy - United States
|
|
Arvid Carlsson
|
1923–2018
|
Sweden
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2000.[16]
|
Gail Carpenter
|
1948-
|
United States
|
First woman to receive the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award for the development of adaptive resonance theory (ART) family of neural networks.
|
Ben Carson
|
1951–
|
United States
|
|
C. Sue Carter
|
|
United States
|
|
Richard Caton
|
1842–1926
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Ugo Cerletti
|
1877–1963
|
Italy
|
|
Carlos Chagas Filho
|
1910–2000
|
Brazil
|
|
Jean-Pierre Changeux
|
1936–
|
France
|
|
Jean-Martin Charcot
|
1825–1893
|
France
|
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome, Charcot–Bouchard aneurysms, Charcot's triad
|
Cécile Charrier
|
1983–
|
France
|
Irène Joliot-Curie “Young Female Scientist of the Year” award
|
Alon Chen
|
1970–
|
Israel
|
11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
|
Daniel Choquet
|
1962–
|
France
|
|
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke
|
1817–1880
|
United Kingdom
|
nucleus dorsalis of Clarke
|
Don W. Cleveland
|
1950–
|
United States
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2018.[17]
|
Stanley Cohen
|
1922–2020
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1986.[18]
|
Graham Collingridge
|
1955–
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2016.[19]
|
Ed Connor
|
1955–
|
United States
|
|
Alexander Cools
|
1941–2013
|
Netherlands
|
|
Jules Cotard
|
1840–1889
|
France
|
Cotard delusion
|
Rodney Cotterill
|
1933–2007
|
United Kingdom
|
|
S. Allen Counter
|
1944–2017
|
United States
|
|
Miguel Rolando Covian
|
1913–1992
|
Argentina - Brazil
|
|
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
|
1885–1964
|
Germany
|
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
|
Francis Crick
|
1916–2004
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Wim Crusio
|
1954–
|
Netherlands
|
|
Harvey Cushing
|
1869–1939
|
United States
|
Cushing reflex, Cushing's disease
|
Johann Nepomuk Czermak
|
1828–1873
|
Austria - Germany
|
Czermak–Hering test
|
Annica Dahlström
|
1941–
|
Sweden
|
|
Henry Hallett Dale
|
1875–1968
|
United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1936.,[20] Dale's principle
|
John Call Dalton
|
1825–1889
|
United States
|
|
Antonio Damasio
|
1944–
|
Portugal - United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 1995.[21]
|
Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich
|
1858–1925
|
Russia
|
Nucleus of Darkshevich
|
Richard Davidson
|
1951–
|
United States
|
|
Peter Dayan
|
1965–
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2017.[22]
|
Duchenne de Boulogne
|
1806–1875
|
France
|
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne-Aran spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne-Erb paralysis
|
Yves De Koninck
|
1964–
|
United States
|
|
Bart De Strooper
|
|
Belgium
|
The Brain Prize - 2018.[23]
|
Jean Decety
|
1960–
|
France - United States
|
|
Kay de Villiers
|
1928–2018
|
South Africa
|
Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.[24]
|
Stanislas Dehaene
|
1965–
|
France
|
The Brain Prize - 2014.[25]
|
Karl Deisseroth
|
1971–
|
United States
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2016.,[26] The Brain Prize - 2013.,[27] Golden Brain Award - 2009.[28]
|
Otto Deiters
|
1834–1863
|
Germany
|
|
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke
|
1859–1927
|
United States - France
|
Klumpke paralysis
|
Mahlon DeLong
|
1938–
|
United States
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2014.[29]
|
Winfried Denk
|
1957–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2012.,[30] The Brain Prize - 2015.[31]
|
Christine Ann Denny
|
|
United States
|
|
René Descartes
|
1596–1650
|
France
|
|
Robert Desimone
|
|
|
Golden Brain Award - 1994.[32] Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2021
|
Richard Deth
|
1945–
|
|
|
Adele Diamond
|
|
United States
|
|
Marian Diamond
|
1926–2017
|
United States
|
|
Elva Díaz
|
1970–
|
United States
|
Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship - 1999; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship - 2004; National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award - 2009; ADVANCE Scholar Award - 2023[33]
|
Alexandre Dogiel
|
1852–1922
|
Lithuania
|
Dogiel cells
|
Merlin Donald
|
1939–
|
Canada
|
|
Gerry Downes
|
|
United States
|
|
Emil du Bois-Reymond
|
1818–1896
|
Germany
|
|
Yadin Dudai
|
1944–
|
Israel
|
|
Catherine Dulac
|
1963–
|
France
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2019
|
Lillian Dyck
|
1945–
|
Canada
|
|
David Eagleman
|
1971–
|
United States
|
|
John Carew Eccles
|
1903–1997
|
Australia
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1963.[34]
|
Constantin von Economo
|
1876–1931
|
Austria
|
von Economo neurons
|
Gerald Edelman
|
1929–2014
|
United States
|
|
Ludwig Edinger
|
1855–1918
|
Germany
|
Edinger–Westphal nucleus
|
Howard Eichenbaum
|
1947–2017
|
United States
|
|
George Bard Ermentrout
|
1954–
|
United States
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2015.[35]
|
Andreas K. Engel
|
1961–
|
Germany
|
|
Roger M. Enoka
|
1949–
|
New Zealand
|
|
Erasistratus
|
c.304–c.250 BCE
|
Greece
|
|
Joseph Erlanger
|
1874–1965
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1944.[36]
|
Ulf von Euler
|
1905–1983
|
Sweden
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1970.[37]
|
Bartolomeo Eustachi
|
1500/1514–1574
|
Italy
|
Eustachian tube
|
Edward Evarts
|
1926–1985
|
United States
|
|
Bengt Falck
|
1927–2023
|
Sweden
|
Falck-Hillarp method of fluorescence
|
James Fallon
|
1947–
|
United States
|
|
Gabriele Falloppio
|
1523–1562
|
Italy
|
Aquæductus Fallopii
|
Paul Fatt
|
1924–2014
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Richard Faull
|
1945–
|
New Zealand
|
|
Gustav Fechner
|
1801–1887
|
Germany
|
Weber–Fechner law
|
Michale Fee
|
1964–
|
United States
|
|
Eva Feldman
|
|
United States
|
|
Guoping Feng
|
|
China
|
|
Jean Fernel
|
1497–1558
|
France
|
|
David Ferrier
|
1843–1928
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Robert Fettiplace
|
1946–
|
United Kingdom
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2018.[38]
|
Edward Flatau
|
1868–1932
|
Poland
|
|
Paul Flechsig
|
1847–1929
|
Germany
|
Flechig-Meyer's loop, Flechsig's fasciculus
|
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
|
1846–1891
|
Austria
|
|
Jean Pierre Flourens
|
1794–1867
|
France
|
|
Otfrid Foerster
|
1873–1941
|
Germany
|
|
Auguste-Henri Forel
|
1848–1931
|
Switzerland
|
Fields of Forel
|
Walter Jackson Freeman III
|
1927–2016
|
United States
|
|
Allan H. Frey
|
1935–
|
|
|
Karl J. Friston
|
1959–
|
United Kingdom
|
Golden Brain Award - 2003.[39]
|
Chris Frith
|
1942–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Gennosuke Fuse
|
1880–1946
|
Japan
|
Kölliker-Fuse nucleus
|
Fred "Rusty" Gage
|
1950–
|
|
|
Joyonna Gamble-George
|
|
United States
|
|
Robert Galambos
|
1914–2010
|
United States
|
|
Galen
|
129–c. 200/c. 216
|
Greek
|
Vein of Galen
|
Franz Joseph Gall
|
1758–1828
|
Germany
|
|
Michela Gallagher
|
|
United States
|
Leads the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center at Johns Hopkins University.[40]
|
Luigi Galvani
|
1737–1798
|
Italy
|
Galvanism, Galvanic skin response, Galvanic vestibular stimulation
|
William Francis Ganong, Jr.
|
1924–2007
|
United States
|
|
Herbert Spencer Gasser
|
1888–1963
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1944.[41] Gasser's ganglion
|
Henri Gastaut
|
1915–1995
|
France
|
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, Idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut
|
Michael Gazzaniga
|
1939–
|
United States
|
|
Francesco Gennari
|
1750–1797
|
Italy
|
Line of Gennari
|
Ralph W. Gerard
|
1900–1974
|
United States
|
|
Robert Gerlai
|
1960–
|
Hungary
|
|
Anirvan Ghosh
|
1964–
|
United States
|
|
Alfred G. Gilman
|
1941–2015
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1994.[42]
|
Donald A. Glaser
|
1926–2013
|
United States
|
|
Francis Glisson
|
1599–1677
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Michel Goedert
|
|
Luxembourg - United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2018.[43]
|
David E. Goldman
|
1910–1998
|
United States
|
Goldman equation, GHK flux equation
|
Camillo Golgi
|
1843–1926
|
Italy
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1906.[44] Golgi tendon organ, Golgi's method, Golgi cell, Golgi I, Golgi II
|
Justo Gonzalo
|
1910–1986
|
Spain
|
Elizabeth Gould
|
1962–
|
United States
|
|
Ragnar Granit
|
1900–1991
|
Finland
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1967.[45]
|
Ann Graybiel
|
1942–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2012.[46]
|
Maria Grazia Spillantini
|
1957–
|
Italy
|
|
Michael E. Greenberg
|
1954–
|
United States
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience -2019
|
Susan Greenfield
|
1950–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Paul Greengard
|
1925–2019
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2000.[47]
|
Kalanit Grill-Spector
|
|
United States
|
|
Sten Grillner
|
1941–
|
Sweden
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2008.[48]
|
Bernhard von Gudden
|
1824–1886
|
Germany
|
commissure of Gudden, Mammillo-tegmental bundle of Gudden
|
Roger Guillemin
|
1924–2024
|
France
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1977.[49]
|
Christian Haass
|
1960–
|
Germany
|
The Brain Prize - 2018.[50]
|
Vladimir Hachinski
|
1941–
|
Ukrainian
|
|
Marshall Hall
|
1790–1857
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Albrecht von Haller
|
1708–1777
|
Switzerland
|
Hallerian physiology
|
Sam Harris
|
1967–
|
United States
|
|
Haldan Keffer Hartline
|
1903–1983
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1967.[51]
|
Jeffrey C. Hall
|
1945–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2017.[52]
|
John Hardy
|
1954–
|
|
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2016.[53] The Brain Prize - 2018.[54]
|
Demis Hassabis
|
1976–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Michael Hasselmo
|
1962-
|
United States
|
|
Rolf Hassler
|
1914–1984
|
Germany
|
|
Donald Olding Hebb
|
1904–1985
|
Canada
|
Hebbian theory
|
Peter Hegemann
|
1954–
|
Germany
|
The Brain Prize - 2013.[55]
|
Lennart Heimer
|
1930–2007
|
Switzerland
|
|
Martin Heisenberg
|
1940–
|
Germany
|
|
Hermann von Helmholtz
|
1821–1894
|
Germany
|
Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect
|
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
|
1972–
|
Brazil
|
|
Ewald Hering
|
1834–1918
|
Germany
|
Hering–Hillebrand deviation, Hering's law of visual direction, Hering's law of equal innervation, Hering–Breuer reflex
|
Herophilos
|
c.335–c.280 BCE
|
Greece
|
|
Percy Herring
|
1872–1967
|
United Kingdom
|
Herring bodies
|
Richard L. Heschl
|
1824–1881
|
Austria
|
Heschl's gyrus
|
Walter Rudolf Hess
|
1881–1973
|
Switzerland
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1949.[56]
|
Corneille Heymans
|
1892–1968
|
Belgium
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1938.[57]
|
Okihide Hikosaka
|
1948–
|
Japan
|
Golden Brain Award - 2015
|
Nils-Åke Hillarp
|
1916–1965
|
Sweden
|
Falck-Hillarp method of fluorescence
|
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
|
1914–1998
|
United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1963.[58] Hodgkin–Huxley model, GHK flux equation, Hodgkin cycle
|
Oleh Hornykiewicz
|
1926–2020
|
Austria
|
|
Victor Horsley
|
1857–1916
|
United Kingdom
|
|
David H. Hubel
|
1926–2013
|
Canada
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1981.[59]
|
A. James Hudspeth
|
1945–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2018.[60]
|
John Hughes
|
1942–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Andrew Huxley
|
1917–2012
|
United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1963.[61] Hodgkin–Huxley model
|
Laurent Itti
|
1970–
|
France
|
|
Ivan Izquierdo
|
1937–2021
|
Argentina - Brazil
|
|
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask
|
1863–1941
|
Germany
|
Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex
|
John Hughlings Jackson
|
1835–1911
|
United Kingdom
|
Jacksonian seizure
|
Herbert Jasper
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1906–1999
|
Canada
|
|
Marc Jeannerod
|
1935–2011
|
France
|
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Thomas Jessell
|
1951–2019
|
United Kingdom
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2008.[62] Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2016
|
Amishi Jha
|
|
|
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Ted Jones
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1939–2011
|
New Zealand
|
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Michel Jouvet
|
1925–2017
|
France
|
|
Béla Julesz
|
1928–2003
|
Hungary
|
|
David Julius
|
1955–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2021.[63] Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2019.[64]
|
Marcel Just
|
|
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Jon Kaas
|
|
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2021
|
Eric R. Kandel
|
1929–
|
Austria - United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2000.[65]
|
Nancy Kanwisher
|
1958–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2007.[66]
|
George Karpati
|
1934–2009
|
Canada
|
|
Bernard Katz
|
1911–2003
|
Germany
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1970.,[67] GHK flux equation
|
Lawrence C. Katz
|
1956–2005
|
United States
|
|
JacSue Kehoe
|
1935–2019
|
United States
|
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J. A. Scott Kelso
|
1947–
|
Ireland
|
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James S. Ketchum
|
1931–2020
|
United States
|
|
Seymour S. Kety
|
1915–2000
|
United States
|
|
Heinrich Klüver
|
1897–1979
|
United States
|
Klüver–Bucy syndrome
|
Christof Koch
|
1956–
|
Germany - United States
|
|
Albert von Kölliker
|
1817–1905
|
Switzerland
|
Kölliker-Fuse nucleus
|
Masakazu Konishi
|
1933–2020
|
Japan
|
|
Jerzy Konorski
|
1903–1973
|
Poland
|
|
George Koob
|
1947–
|
|
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Nancy Kopell
|
1942–
|
United States
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2015.[68]
|
Georg N. Koskinas
|
1885–1975
|
Greece
|
|
Emil Kraepelin
|
1856–1926
|
Germany
|
Kraepelinian dichotomy
|
Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
|
1723–1795
|
Germany
|
|
Stephen Kuffler
|
1913–1980
|
Hungary
|
|
Story Landis
|
|
United States
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2015
|
John Newport Langley
|
1852–1925
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Louis Lapicque
|
1866–1952
|
France
|
|
Marcelle Lapicque
|
1873–1962
|
France
|
|
Steven Laureys
|
1968–
|
Belgium
|
|
Denis Le Bihan
|
1957–
|
France
|
|
Aristides Leão
|
1914–1993
|
Brazil
|
Leão's spreading depression[69]
|
Joseph LeDoux
|
1949–
|
United States
|
|
César Julien Jean Legallois
|
1770–1814
|
France
|
|
Lars Leksell
|
1907–1986
|
Sweden
|
|
Jerome Lettvin
|
1920–2011
|
United States
|
|
Simon LeVay
|
1943–
|
United Kingdom - United States
|
|
Rita Levi-Montalcini
|
1909–2012
|
Italy
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1986.[70]
|
Daniel Levitin
|
1957–
|
United States - Canada
|
|
Marc Lewis
|
1951–
|
Canada
|
|
John C. Lilly
|
1915–2001
|
United States
|
|
Charles Limb
|
|
United States
|
|
Christiane Linster
|
1962–
|
Luxembourg
|
|
Heinrich Lissauer
|
1861–1891
|
Poland
|
Lissauer's tract
|
Rodolfo Llinás
|
1934–
|
Colombia - United States
|
Llinás' law, Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2018
|
Otto Loewi
|
1873–1961
|
Germany
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1936.[71]
|
Nikos Logothetis
|
1950–
|
Greece
|
Golden Brain Award - 1999.[72]
|
Terje Lømo
|
1935–
|
Norway
|
|
Rafael Lorente de Nó
|
1902–1990
|
Spain
|
|
Paul Loye
|
1861–1890
|
France
|
|
Liliana Lubinska
|
1904–1990
|
Poland
|
|
Keith Lucas
|
1879–1916
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Liqun Luo
|
1966–
|
China
|
|
Jules Bernard Luys
|
1828–1897
|
France
|
Luys' body
|
William Macewen
|
1848–1924
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Roderick MacKinnon
|
1956–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 2003.[73]
|
François Magendie
|
1783–1855
|
France
|
Foramen of Magendie
|
Horace Winchell Magoun
|
1907–1991
|
|
|
Eleanor Maguire
|
1970–
|
Ireland
|
|
Misha Mahowald
|
1963–1996
|
United States
|
|
Paolo Mantegazza
|
1831–1910
|
Italy
|
|
Eve Marder
|
1948–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2016.[74]
|
Henry Markram
|
1962-
|
South Africa
|
|
Bianca Jones Marlin
|
living in 2020
|
United States
|
2017 Stat Wunderkinds Award[75]
|
David Marr
|
1945–1980
|
United Kingdom
|
|
C. David Marsden
|
1938–1998
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Eliezer Masliah
|
1959-
|
|
|
Niccolò Massa
|
1485–1569
|
Italy
|
|
Carlo Matteucci
|
1811–1868
|
Italy
|
|
Humberto Maturana
|
1928–2021
|
Chile
|
|
Herbert Mayo
|
1796–1852
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Mervyn Maze
|
|
South Africa
|
|
James McClelland
|
1948–
|
United States
|
|
James V. McConnell
|
1925–1990
|
United States
|
|
Warren McCulloch
|
1898–1969
|
United States
|
McCulloch–Pitts neuron
|
Bruce McEwen
|
1938–2020
|
United States
|
|
James McGaugh
|
1931–
|
United States
|
|
Ladislas J. Meduna
|
1896–1964
|
Hungary
|
|
H. Houston Merritt
|
1902–1979
|
United States
|
|
Michael Merzenich
|
1942–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2016.[76]
|
Franz Mesmer
|
1734–1815
|
Germany
|
Mesmerism
|
Adolf Meyer
|
1866–1950
|
Switzerland
|
Meyer's loop
|
Theodor Meynert
|
1833–1892
|
Germany
|
Nucleus basalis of Meynert, substantia innominata of Meynert
|
Gero Miesenböck
|
1965–
|
Austria
|
The Brain Prize - 2013.[77]
|
Earl K. Miller
|
1962–
|
United States
|
Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience - 2016[78] George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience - 2019[79]
|
Brenda Milner
|
1918–
|
United Kingdom - Canada
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2014.[80]
|
Peter Milner
|
1919–2018
|
United Kingdom - Canada
|
|
Mondino de Luzzi
|
1270–1326
|
Italy
|
|
Egas Moniz
|
1874–1955
|
Portugal
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1949.,[81] Moniz sign
|
Alexander Monro
|
1733–1817
|
United Kingdom
|
Foramina of Monro
|
Read Montague
|
1960–
|
United States
|
|
Richard G. Morris
|
1948–
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2016.[82]
|
Giuseppe Moruzzi
|
1910–1986
|
Italy
|
|
Edvard Moser
|
1962–
|
Norway
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2014.[83]
|
May-Britt Moser
|
1963–
|
Norway
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2014.[84]
|
Vernon Mountcastle
|
1918–2015
|
United States
|
|
Anthony Movshon
|
1950–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2013.[85]
|
Heinrich Müller
|
1820–1864
|
Germany
|
Muller glia
|
Johannes Peter Müller
|
1801–1858
|
Germany
|
|
Ken Nakayama
|
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2017.[86]
|
Jeremy Nathans
|
1958–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 1989.[87]
|
Walle Nauta
|
1916–1994
|
Dutch East Indies
|
|
Erwin Neher
|
1944–
|
Germany
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1991.[88]
|
Charles A. Nelson III
|
|
United States
|
|
Helen Neville
|
1946-2018
|
Canada
|
|
William Newsome
|
1952–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 1992.[89]
|
John Graham Nicholls
|
1929–2023
|
United Kingdom - Switzerland
|
|
Miguel Nicolelis
|
1961–
|
Brazil
|
|
Rudolf Nieuwenhuys
|
1927–
|
Netherlands
|
|
Franz Nissl
|
1860–1919
|
Germany
|
Nissl body, Nissl granules, Nissl method
|
Akinori Noma
|
|
Japan
|
|
Fernando Nottebohm
|
1940–
|
Argentina
|
|
John O'Keefe
|
1939–
|
United States - United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2014.,[90] Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2014.[91]
|
Heinrich Obersteiner
|
1847–1922
|
Austria
|
Redlich–Obersteiner's zone
|
Seiji Ogawa
|
1934–
|
Japan
|
|
Melly Oitzl
|
1955–
|
Austria
|
|
Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz
|
1863–1928
|
Russia
|
Onuf's nucleus
|
Jaak Panksepp
|
1943–2017
|
Estonia - United States
|
|
James Papez
|
1883–1958
|
United States
|
Papez circuit
|
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
|
1961–
|
Spain
|
|
Ardem Patapoutian
|
1967–
|
Lebanon
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2021.[63]
|
Paul Patterson
|
1943–2014
|
United States
|
|
Steven M. Paul
|
|
United States
|
|
Ivan Pavlov
|
1849–1936
|
Russia
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1904.[92] Pavlovian conditioning
|
George Paxinos
|
1944–
|
Greece
|
|
Wilder Penfield
|
1891–1976
|
United States - Canada
|
Penfield's maps
|
Edward Perl
|
1926–2014
|
United States
|
|
David Perrett
|
1954–
|
|
Golden Brain Award - 2001.[93]
|
Candace Pert
|
1946–2013
|
United States
|
|
Christine Petit
|
1948–
|
France
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2018.[94] The Brain Prize - 2012.[95]
|
Eduard Pflüger
|
1829–1910
|
Germany
|
|
Archangelo Piccolomini
|
1525-1586
|
Italy
|
|
Walter Pitts
|
1923–1969
|
United States
|
McCulloch–Pitts neuron
|
Tomaso Poggio
|
1947–
|
Italy
|
|
Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky
|
1879–1952
|
Russia
|
|
Karl Pribram
|
1919–2015
|
Austria
|
|
Stanley B. Prusiner
|
1942–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1997.[96]
|
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
|
1787–1869
|
Czech Republic
|
Purkinje effect, Purkinje cell, Purkinje fibre, Purkinje images
|
Dale Purves
|
1938–
|
United States
|
|
Marcus Raichle
|
1937–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2014.[97]
|
Pasko Rakic
|
1933–
|
Kingdom of Yugoslavia - United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2008.[98]
|
Patricia Goldman Rakic
|
1937–2003
|
United States
|
|
Wilfrid Rall
|
1922–2018
|
United States
|
|
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
|
1951–
|
India - United States
|
|
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
|
1852–1934
|
Spain
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1906.[44] Cajal–Retzius cell, Cajal body, Interstitial cell of Cajal
|
Louis-Antoine Ranvier
|
1835–1922
|
France
|
Node of Ranvier
|
Geraint Rees
|
1967–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Johann Christian Reil
|
1759–1813
|
Germany
|
Islands of Reil
|
Ernst Reissner
|
1824–1878
|
Germany
|
Reissner's membrane
|
Thomas Reh
|
|
United States
|
|
Robert Remak
|
1815–1865
|
Poland - Germany
|
|
Gustaf Retzius
|
1842–1919
|
Sweden
|
Cajal–Retzius cell
|
Bror Rexed
|
1914–2002
|
Sweden
|
Rexed laminae
|
David Rioch
|
1900–1985
|
India - United States
|
|
Giacomo Rizzolatti
|
1937–
|
Italy
|
The Brain Prize - 2014.[99]
|
Trevor Robbins
|
1949–
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2014.[100]
|
Nayef Al-Rodhan
|
1959–
|
Saudi Arabia
|
|
Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora
|
1886–1971
|
Spain
|
Lafora disease and Lafora bodies
|
Luigi Rolando
|
1773–1831
|
Italy
|
Rolandic area, substantia gelatinosa of Rolando, Fissure of Rolando, Rolandic epilepsy
|
Edmund Rolls
|
|
|
|
Michael Rosbash
|
1944–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2017.[101]
|
Steven Rose
|
1938–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
James Rothman
|
1950–
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2013.,[102] Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2010.[103]
|
Bernardo Sabatini
|
1969-
|
United States
|
|
Jane Rylett
|
1952–
|
Canada
|
|
Renato M. E. Sabbatini
|
1947–
|
Brazil
|
|
Oliver Sacks
|
1933–2015
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Manfred Sakel
|
1900–1957
|
Austria
|
|
Bert Sakmann
|
1942–
|
Germany
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1991.[104]
|
Anders Sandberg
|
1972–
|
Sweden
|
|
Robert Sapolsky
|
1957–
|
United States
|
|
Antonio Scarpa
|
1752–1832
|
Italy
|
Scarpa's fluid, Foramina of Scarpa, Scarpa's ganglion
|
Károly Schaffer
|
1864–1939
|
Hungary
|
Schaffer collateral
|
Andrew Schally
|
1926–2024
|
France
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1977.[105]
|
Richard Scheller
|
1953–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2010.[106]
|
Daniela Schiller
|
1972–
|
Israel
|
|
Francis O. Schmitt
|
1903–1995
|
United States
|
|
Erich Schröger
|
1958–
|
Germany
|
|
Theodor Schwann
|
1810–1882
|
Germany
|
Schwann cell
|
Eric L. Schwartz
|
1947–2018
|
|
|
Terrence J. Sejnowski
|
1947–
|
United States
|
|
Sebastian Seung
|
1966–
|
Korea - United States
|
|
Michael Shadlen
|
1959–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2012.[107]
|
Maryam M. Shanechi
|
1981–
|
Iran
|
one of the Science News 10 scientists to watch in 2019.[108]
|
Tali Sharot
|
|
Israel
|
|
Carla J. Shatz
|
1947–
|
United States
|
Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2016.[109] Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2011
|
Gordon Shepherd
|
1933–2022
|
|
|
Charles Scott Sherrington
|
1857–1952
|
United Kingdom
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1932.[110] Sherrington's First Law, Sherrington's law of reciprocal innervation, Liddell-Sherrington reflex, Sherrington's First Law, Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon
|
Aafia Siddiqui
|
1972–
|
Pakistan
|
|
James A. Simmons
|
|
|
|
Eero Simoncelli
|
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2016.[111]
|
Wolf Singer
|
1943–
|
Germany
|
|
Ruxandra Sireteanu
|
1945–2008
|
Romania
|
Bielschowsky Society Award for Research in Strabismus - 1994.[112]
|
Phil Skolnick
|
1947–
|
United States
|
|
Jens Christian Skou
|
1918–2018
|
Denmark
|
Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1997.[113]
|
P. J. Snow
|
1948–
|
Australia
|
|
Solomon H. Snyder
|
1938–
|
United States
|
|
Louis Sokoloff
|
1921–2015
|
United States
|
|
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
|
1755–1830
|
Germany
|
|
Peter Somogyi
|
1950–
|
Hungary
|
The Brain Prize - 2011.[114]
|
Haim Sompolinsky
|
1949–
|
Denmark
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2013.[115]
|
Yvonne Sorrel-Dejerine
|
1891–1986
|
French
|
|
Roger Wolcott Sperry
|
1913–1994
|
United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1981.[116]
|
Larry Squire
|
1941–
|
|
|
Karen Steel
|
|
United Kingdom
|
The Brain Prize - 2012.[117]
|
Nicolas Steno
|
1638–1686
|
Denmark
|
|
Mircea Steriade
|
1924–2006
|
Romania
|
|
Lina Stern
|
1878–1968
|
Russia
|
|
Charles F. Stevens
|
1934–2022
|
United States
|
W. Alden Spencer Award-1979
|
Thomas C. Südhof
|
1955–
|
Germany - United States
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2013.,[118] Kavli prize in Neuroscience - 2010.[119]
|
Nobuo Suga
|
1933–
|
Japan
|
|
Karel Svoboda
|
1965–
|
Czech Republic
|
The Brain Prize - 2015.[120]
|
Jan Swammerdam
|
1637–1680
|
Netherlands
|
|
Franciscus Sylvius
|
1614–1672
|
Netherlands
|
Sylvian fissure, Sylvian aqueduct
|
János Szentágothai
|
1912–1994
|
Hungary
|
|
Joseph Takahashi
|
1951–
|
Japan - United States
|
|
David W. Tank
|
|
United States
|
The Brain Prize - 2015.[121]
|
Ichiji Tasaki
|
1910–2009
|
Japan - United States
|
|
Jill Bolte Taylor
|
1959–
|
United States
|
|
Sally Temple
|
|
|
|
Johannes Thome
|
1967–
|
|
|
Naftali Tishby
|
1952–2021
|
Israel
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2019.[122]
|
Susumu Tonegawa
|
1939–
|
Japan
|
|
Giulio Tononi
|
1960–
|
Italy
|
|
Anne Treisman
|
1935–2018
|
United Kingdom
|
Golden Brain Award - 1996.[123]
|
Doris Tsao
|
1975–
|
United States
|
Golden Brain Award - 2014.[124]
|
Richard W. Tsien
|
1945–
|
China - United States
|
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience-2014
|
Misha Tsodyks
|
|
Russia
|
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize - 2017.[125]
|
Endel Tulving
|
1927–2023
|
|
|
Fred W. Turek
|
1947–
|
United States
|
|
Robert Turner
|
1946–
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Lucina Uddin
|
|
Bangladesh
|
|
Leslie Ungerleider
|
1946–2020
|
|
Golden Brain Award - 2011.[126]
|
Elliott Valenstein
|
1923–2023
|
United States
|
|
Antonio Maria Valsalva
|
1666–1723
|
Italy
|
Valsalva maneuver
|
Francisco Varela
|
1946–2001
|
Chile
|
|
Costanzo Varolio
|
1543–1575
|
Italy
|
Pons Varolii
|
Andreas Vesalius
|
1514–1564
|
Habsburg Netherlands
|
|
Jerzy Vetulani
|
1936-2017
|
Poland
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Anna-Monika Prize - 1983.[127]
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Félix Vicq-d'Azyr
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1748–1794
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France
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Bundle of Vicq d’Azyr
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Arno Villringer
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1958–
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Germany
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Marthe Vogt
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1903–2003
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Germany
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Joshua T. Vogelstein
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1981–
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United States
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Oskar Vogt
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1870–1959
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Germany
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg
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1857–1940
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Austria
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George Wald
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1906–1997
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United States
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1967.[128]
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Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
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1836–1921
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Germany
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Augustus Volney Waller
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1816–1870
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United Kingdom
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Wallerian degeneration
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William Grey Walter
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1910–1977
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United States - United Kingdom
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Shih-Chun Wang
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1910–1993
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United States
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Kevin Warwick
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1954–
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United Kingdom
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Ernst Heinrich Weber
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1795–1878
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Germany
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Weber–Fechner law
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Karl Wernicke
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1848–1905
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Germany
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Wernicke's area, Wernicke's aphasia
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Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
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1833–1890
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Germany
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Westphal's sign, Edinger–Westphal nucleus
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Victor P. Whittaker
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1919–2016
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United Kingdom
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Robert Whytt
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1714–1766
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United Kingdom
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Torsten Wiesel
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1924–
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Sweden
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1981.[129]
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Samuel Williamson
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1939–2005
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United States
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Thomas Willis
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1621–1675
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United Kingdom
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Circle of Willis
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Moshe Wolman
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1914–2009
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Israel
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Valerie Wojna
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–
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United States
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Fellow, American Academy of Neurology - 2001.
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Daniel Wolpert
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1963–
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United Kingdom
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Golden Brain Award - 2010.[130]
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Daniel Wolpert
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1963–
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United Kingdom
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Golden Brain Award - 2010.[130]
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Robert Wurtz
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1936–
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United States
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Golden Brain Award - 1991.[131]
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Michael W. Young
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1949–
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United States
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2017.[132]
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E. Paul Zehr
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1968–
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Canada
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Semir Zeki
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United Kingdom
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Golden Brain Award - 1985.[133]
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Huda Zoghbi
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1955–
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Lebanon
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Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences - 2017.[134]
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Yngve Zotterman
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1898–1982
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Sweden
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Charles Zuker
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1957–
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Chile
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George Zweig
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1937–
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Russia - United States
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