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Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
American neuroscientist (1918-2015) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 96
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s.
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2015Died11 January 20151998NAS Award in the NeurosciencesAward1997The Paton LectureAward1996Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1991Honorary Doctorate of the University of Santiago de CompostelaAward1986National Medal of ScienceAward1983Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1982International Prize by Fyssen FoundationAward1980Ralph W. Gerard PrizeAward1978Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAward1974Karl Spencer Lashley AwardAward1918Born15 July 1918
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This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 2015 · aged 96
