Stephen Kuffler
Stephen William Kuffler (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.
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