# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/torsten-nils-wiesel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:26:01.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/torsten-nils-wiesel"
name: "Torsten Nils Wiesel"
slug: "torsten-nils-wiesel"
description: "Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. 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."
tagline: "Swedish neuroscientist"
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birthDate: "1924-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  233
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump