Nobel Prize - Neuroscience
Year of Award Name(s) Birth and Death Dates Nationality/Citizenship Field of Study
1906 Golgi, Camillo 7/7/1843 to 1/21/1926 Italian Structure of the Nervous System
Ramon y Cajal, Santiago 5/1/1852 to 10/18/1934 Spanish Structure of the Nervous System
1911 Gullstrand, Allvar 6/5/1862 to 7/28/1930 Swedish Optics of the Eye
1914 Barany, Robert 5/22/1876 to 4/8/1936 Austrian Physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus
1927 Wagner-Jauregg, Julius 3/7/1857 to 9/27/1940 Austrian Discovery of Malaria inoculation to treat dementia paralytica
1932 Adrian, Edgar Douglas 11/30/1889 to 8/4/1977 British Function of neurons in sending messages
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott 11/27/1857 to 3/4/1952 British Function of neurons in the brain and spinal cord
1936 Dale, Sir Henry Hallett 6/9/1875 to 7/23/1968 British Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Loewi, Otto 6/3/1875 to 12/25/1961 German, American Citizen Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
1944 Erlanger, Joseph 1/5/1874 to 12/15/1965 American Differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
Gasser, Herbert Spencer 7/5/1888 to 5/11/1963 American Differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
1949 Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetano Abreu Freire 11/29/1874 to 12/13/1955 Portuguese Leucotomy for certain psychoses
Hess, Walter Rudolph 3/17/1881 to 8/12/1973 Swiss The "interbrain" (hypothalamus) used to control activity of internal organs
1957 Bovet, Daniel 3/23/1907 to 4/9/1992 Italian Work on synthetic substances that inhibit action of body substances.
1961 Von Bekesy, Georg 6/3/1899 to 6/13/1972 Hungarian, American Citizen Function of the cochlea
1963 Eccles, Sir John Carew 1/27/1903 to 5/2/1997 Australian Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd 2/5/1914 to 12/20/1998 British Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding 12/22/1917 to British Ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membrane
1967 Granit, Ragnar Arthur 10/30/1900 to 3/12/1991 Finnish, Swedish citizen Mechanisms of Vision - Wavelength discrimination of the eye
Hartline, Halden Keffer 12/22/1903 to 3/17/1983 American Mechanisms of Vision
Wald, George 11/18/1906 to 04/12/1997 American Mechanisms of Vision - chemical processes
1970 Axelrod, Julius 5/30/1912 to 12/29/2004 American Humoral transmitters in sympathetic nerves
Katz, Sir Bernard 3/26/1911 to 4/20/2003 German, British Citizen Release of neurotransmitters from nerve terminals
von Euler, Ulf Svante 2/7/1905 to 3/10/1983 Swedish Humoral transmitters in sympathetic nerves
1973 Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias 11/7/1903 to 2/27/1989 Austrian Ethology
Tinbergen, Nikolaas 4/15/1907 to 12/21/1988 Dutch Ethology
von Frisch, Karl 11/20/1886 to 6/12/1982 Austrian Ethology
1976 Blumberg, Baruch S. 7/28/1925 to American Mechanisms for origin and dissemination of infection disease
Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton 9/9/1923 to American Mechanisms for origin and dissemination of infection disease
1977 Guillemin, Roger 1/11/1924 to French, American Citizen Production of peptides in the brain
Schally, Andrew Victor 11/30/1926 to Polish, Canadian/American Citizen Production of peptides in the brain
1979 Cormack, Allan MacLeod 2/23/1924 to 5/7/1998 South African, American Citizen Invention of computer-assisted tomography
Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold 8/28/1919 to 8/12/2004 British Invention of computer-assisted tomography
1981 Hubel, David Hunter 2/27/1926 to Canadian, American Citizen Information processing in the visual system
Sperry, Roger Wolcott 8/20/1913 to 4/17/1994 American Functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain
Wiesel, Torsten N. 6/3/1924 to Swedish, American Citizen Information processing in the visual system
1982 Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar 5/21/1934 to Swedish Discovery of prostaglandins
Vane, John Robert 3/29/1927 to 11/19/2004 British Discovery of prostaglandins
Bergstrom, Sune K. 1/10/1916 to 8/15/2004 Swedish Discovery of prostaglandins
1986 Cohen, Stanley 12/17/1922 to American Control of nerve cell growth
Levi-Montalcini, Rita 4/22/1909 to Italian, American Citizen Control of nerve cell growth
1991 Neher, Erwin 3/20/1944 to German Function of single ion channels in cells
Sakmann, Bert 6/12/1942 to German Function of single ion channels in cells
1994 Gilman, Alfred G. 7/1/1941 to American Discovery of G-protein coupled receptors and their role in signal transduction
Rodbell, Martin 12/1/1925 to 12/7/1998 American Discovery of G-protein coupled receptors and their role in signal transduction
1997 Prusiner, Stanley B. 5/28/1942 to American Discovery of prions; a new biological principle of infection
2000 Carlsson, Arvid 1/25/1923 to Swedish Signal transduction in the nervous system/dopamine
Greengard, Paul 12/11/1925 to American Signal transduction in the nervous system
Kandel, Eric R. 11/7/1929 to American Signal transduction in the nervous system/learning
2003 Lauterbur, Paul C. 5/6/1929 to American Discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
Mansfield, Sir Peter 10/9/1933 to British Discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
2003 MacKinnon, Roderick 2/16/1956 to American Structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
2004 Buck, Linda B. 1/29/1947 to American Discovery of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
Axel, Richard 7/2/1946 to American Discovery of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system

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