David H. Hubel

Nobel Prize lecture

Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955-1978: A Biased Historical Account

David H. Hubel held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1981, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor David Ottoson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955-1978: A Biased Historical Account

David H. Hubel held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1981, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor David Ottoson, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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