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David H. Hubel

1926 - 2013

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David Hunter Hubel (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Roger W. Sperry), for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. For much of his career, Hubel worked as the Professor of Neurobiology at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School. In 1978, Hubel and Wiesel were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David H. Hubel is the 182nd most popular physician (up from 207th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Canada (up from 75th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Physician. Learn more about David H. Hubel's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among physicians, David H. Hubel ranks 182 out of 726. Before him are Friedrich Miescher, Robert Knox, August von Wassermann, Engelbert Kaempfer, Michael Stuart Brown, and Joseph Calasanz. After him are Nicolaes Tulp, Adolf Eugen Fick, Ludwig Guttmann, Charles Brenton Huggins, Psusennes II, and Thomas Bartholin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, David H. Hubel ranks 85. Before him are Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Dennis W. Sciama, Robert Fogel, and Michel Butor. After him are Ta Mok, Richard Matheson, Noah Gordon, George C. Williams, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, and Heikki Hasu. Among people deceased in 2013, David H. Hubel ranks 57. Before him are Bert Trautmann, Don Shirley, Chinua Achebe, Gyula Horn, Robert Fogel, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki. After him are Seki Matsunaga, Viktor Kulikov, Richard Matheson, Antoni Ramallets, Manfred Rommel, and Ronald Dworkin.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David H. Hubel ranks 68 out of 1,622. Before him are Oswald Avery (1877), Elliot Page (1987), Eugene Levy (1946), Oscar Peterson (1925), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), and Dan Aykroyd (1952). After him are John Ireland (1914), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), The Weeknd (1990), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Elizabeth Arden (1878), and Glenn Ford (1916).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, David H. Hubel ranks 3. Before him are Frederick Banting (1891), and Oswald Avery (1877). After him are Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), Norman Bethune (1890), William Osler (1849), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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