Stephen Kuffler
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| Born | August 24, 1913 Hungary |
| Died | October 11, 1980 (aged 67) United States |
| Residence | Hungary United States |
| Nationality | Hungary United States |
| Fields | Neurophysiology Neurobiology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole Harvard University Salk Institute |
| Alma mater | Vienna Medical School |
| Doctoral advisor | John Carew Eccles |
| Doctoral students | David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Eric Kandel John G. Nicholls Horace Barlow Yuh-Nung Jan Lily Jan |
| Known for | Neurophysiology Neurobiology |
| Notable awards | Member of National Academy of Sciences Foreign Member of Royal Society Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize |
Stephen William Kuffler (August 24 Tap, Hungary, 1913 – October 11, 1980) was a pre-eminent Hungarian-American neurophysiologist. Often, he's been referred to as the "Father of Modern Neuroscience". 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.
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[edit] Honors and awards
Kuffler was widely recognized as a truly original and creative neuroscientist. In addition to numerous prizes, honorary degrees, and special lectureships from countries over the world, Steve was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964 and to the Royal Society as Foreign Member in 1971. In 1964 he was named the Robert Winthrop professor of neurophysiology and neuropharmacology. From 1966 to 1974 he was the Robert Winthrop professor of neurobiology, and in 1974 he became John Franklin Enders university professor.
A detailed, affectionate, and authoritative account of Stephen Kuffler's life and work has been provided by Sir Bernard Katz (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 28, pp. 225-59, 1982) and in a book entitled Steve, Remembrances of Stephen W. Kuffler, compiled and introduced by U. J. McMahan (Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 1990)."
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[edit] References
- Stephen W. Kuffler's biographical memoir at the National Academy of Sciences.
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