Torsten Wiesel, in collaboration with David H. Hubel, provided fundamental insight into physiology of vision. Wiesel's work on charting the visual or striate cortex, the posterior section of the cerebral cortex, provided new insights into the...

Torsten Nils Wiesel was born on June 3, 1924, in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Anna-Lisa Bentzer Wiesel and Fritz S. Wiesel, the chief psychiatrist at the Beckomberga Mental Hospital in Stockholm. Wiesel entered medical school at the Karolinska Institute...

1924- Swedish neuroscientist who received the 1981 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, which he shared with Roger Sperry and David Hubel, for research on the organization and local functions of the brain. Their work, which remains of vital...

Torsten Nils Wiesel (b. June 3, 1924) was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W....

Is there a more contemptible poseur and windbag than Elie Wiesel? I suppose there may be. But not, surely, a poseur and windbag who receives (and takes as his due) such grotesque deference on moral questions. Look, if you will, at his essay...

Stig Torsten Erik Hagerstrand, a Swede devoted to his homeland, a good European and a citizen of the world, died in Lund on 3 May 2004. He was one of the most distinguished geographers of his generation. In thought, word and deed he...