Torsten Wiesel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Torsten Wiesel

Swedish neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1924

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Profession: neurologist, biologist, lecturer, academic

Nationality: United States, Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist.
Together with David H.
Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W.
Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.