# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-kuffler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:33:36.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-kuffler"
name: "Stephen Kuffler"
slug: "stephen-kuffler"
description: "Stephen William Kuffler was a Hungarian-American neurophysiologist. He is often referred to as the \"Father of Modern Neuroscience\". Kuffler, alongside noted Nobel Laureates Sir John Eccles and Sir Bernard Katz gave research lectures at the University of Sydney, strongly influencing its intellectual environment while working at Sydney Hospital. He founded the Harvard neurobiology department in 1966, and made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of vision, neural coding, and the neural implementation of behavior. He is known for his research on neuromuscular junctions in frogs, presynaptic inhibition, and the neurotransmitter GABA. In 1972, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University."
tagline: "American neurophysiologist (1913–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_W_Kuffler.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1913-08-24"
deathDate: "1980-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Stephen Kuffler"
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    title: "Stephen Kuffler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump