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Peter Somogyi

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Peter Somogyi
Born1950 02 27
NationalityHungarian, British
OccupationProfessor of Neurobiology
EmployerUniversity of Oxford
Known forResearch on neuronal networks in the brain
Websitehttps://pharm.ox.ac.uk/research/somogyi-group

Peter Somogyi FRS FMedSci is the former Director of the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, England.[1]

Amongst many scientific honours he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2000,[2] and awarded the first (together with hungarian co-winners Gyorgy Buzsaki and Tamás Freund) Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Brain Prize in 2011.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Somogyi Group". Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Member Peter Somogyi". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Biography Peter Somogyi". The Brain Prize. European Brain Research Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2016.