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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981
Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel

Interview

Interview, December 2001

Interview with Dr. Torsten Wiesel by Joanna Rose, science writer, 8 December 2001.

Dr. Wiesel talks about his studies of the visual process in the brain; challenges in neurophysiology (8:21); colour vision and the perception of the world (11:01); and his present work in helping to train students from the developing countries (14:49).

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