Wikipedia's first sentence called it “co-recipient with david h”. Today it says “swedish neurophysiologist”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
June 3 , 1924 ) was co-recipient with David H.1 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. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
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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. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Hubel , he received 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. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Hubel , he received 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. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. "David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013) Neuroscientist who helped to reveal how the brain processes visual information" ."Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex" ."Revisiting the 1981 Nobel Prize to Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of the centennial of the Prize to Golgi and Cajal".Journal of the History of the Neurosciences .Shampo, M A; Kyle, R A (1994).Resonance: Journal of Science Education .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Hubel , he received 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. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres. "David Hunter Hubel (1926–2013) Neuroscientist who helped to reveal how the brain processes visual information" . "Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex" . "Revisiting the 1981 Nobel Prize to Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and Torsten Wiesel on the occasion of the centennial of the Prize to Golgi and Cajal". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences . Shampo, M A; Kyle, R A (1994). Resonance: Journal of Science Education .
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co-recipient with david h
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swedish neurophysiologist
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