Fernando Nottebohm
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Education
Nottebohm was born in Argentina and received his PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 while working with Peter Marler.[5] Afterwards, he conducted extensive investigations of the song of the rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis).
Research
Nottebohm is best known for his work on neurogenesis in the adult vertebrate brain,[6] a phenomenon that previously had been thought impossible by most scientists.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
- 1967-71 Assistant professor, Rockefeller University
- 1971-76 Associate professor, Rockefeller University
- 1976–present Professor, Rockefeller University
- 1981–present Director, Rockefeller University Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology, Millbrook, New York
Honors and awards
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- 1982 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1982 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]
- 1982 Kenneth Craik Research Award of St. John's College, Cambridge University, England, for outstanding scholarship in physiological psychology.
- 1984 Pattison Award for Distinguished Research in the Neurosciences.
- 1986 Nelson Medical Lectureship, awarded by the School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis
- 1986 Elliott Coue's Award, American Ornithologists’ Union.
- 1987 Painton Award, Cooper Ornithological Society.
- 1988 Member of the National Academy of Sciences. USA[8]
- 1990 MERIT Award, National Institutes of Mental Health.
- 1991 Member of the American Philosophical Society.[9]
- 1992 Charles A. Dana Award (jointly with Masakazu Konishi) for pioneering achievement in The Health Sciences.
- 1995 King Solomon Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- 1996 Named to the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Distinguished Professorship, Rockefeller University
- 1999 Fondation Ipsen Neuronal Plasticity Prize[10] (jointly with Peter Marler and Masakazu Konishi).
- 2003 Ernst Florey Plenary Lecture. 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference & 15th Meeting of German Neuroscience Society.
- 2003 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in the Basic Medical Sciences[11] (shared with Masakazu Konishi and Peter Marler).
- 2004 Karl Spencer Lashley Award (shared with Masakazu Konishi). American Philosophical Society
- 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences.[12] The Franklin Institute.
- 2006 Sven Berggren Lecture and Prize. Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.
References
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- ↑ Nottebohm F. From bird song to neurogenesis. Sci Am. 1989 Feb;260(2):74-9. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0289-74. PMID 2643827.
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