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HISTORY OF NEUROSCIENCE

Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine that have advanced Neuroscience

1900's
1906 Camillo GOLGI and Santiago RAMON Y CAJAL - in recognition of their work on the stucture of the nervous system.
1910's
1911 Allvar GULLSTRAND - for his work on the dioptrics of the eye
1914 Robert BÁRÁNY - demonstrates the physiology and pathology of the inner ear.
1930's
1932 Sir Charles Scott SHERRINGTON and Lord (Edgar Douglas) ADRIAN - for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.
1936 Sir Henry Hallett DALE and Otto LOEWI - for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
1940's
1944 Joseph ERLANGER and Herbert Spencer GASSER - describe highly specific functions of single nerve fibres.
1949 Walter Rudolf HESS - for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs
Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas MONIZ - for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.
1960's
1961 Georg von BEKESY - for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea.
1963 Sir John Carew ECCLES, Sir Alan Lloyd HODGKIN and Sir Andrew Fielding HUXLEY - for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
1967 RAGNAR GRANIT ,HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE and GEORGE WALD for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
1970's
1970 Sir Bernard KATZ, Ulf von EULER and Julius AXELROD - for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
1977 Roger GUILLEMIN and Andrew V. SCHALLY jointly with Rosalyn YAKOW - for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
1979 Alan M. CORMACK and Sir Godfrey N. HOUNSFIELD - for the development of computer assisted tomography
1980's
1981 Roger W. SPERRY, for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres
David H. HUBEL and Torsten N. WIESEL - describe the processing of visual information by the brain
1990's
1991 Erwin NEHER and Bert SAKMANN - for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.
1992 EDMOND H. FISCHER and EDWIN G. KREBS for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
1994 ALFRED G. GILMAN and MARTIN RODBELL for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.
1997 STANLEY B. PRUSINER for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
2000's
2000 Carlsson, Greengard and Kandel-for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
2002 SYDNEY BRENNER ,H. ROBERT HORVITZ and JOHN E. SULSTON for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
2003 PAUL C. LAUTERBUR , and SIR PETER MANSFIELD for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging.
2004 Richard Axel and Linda Buck for their discoveries of olfactory receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
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