Stephen Kuffler
Stephen W. Kuffler | |
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| Born | August 24, 1913 |
| Died | October 11, 1980 (aged 67) United States |
| Nationality | Hungarian American |
| Alma mater | Vienna Medical School |
| Known for | Neurophysiology Neurobiology |
| Awards | Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1972) Dickson Prize (1974) Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience (1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurophysiology Neurobiology |
| Institutions | University of Sydney University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole Harvard University Salk Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | John Carew Eccles |
| Doctoral students | David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Eric Kandel John Graham Nicholls Horace Barlow |
Stephen William Kuffler ForMemRS (August 24, 1913 – October 11, 1980) was a Hungarian-American neurophysiologist. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Neuroscience". Kuffler, alongside noted Nobel Laureates Sir John Eccles and Sir Bernard Katz gave research lectures at the University of Sydney, strongly influencing its intellectual environment while working at Sydney Hospital. 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.