2006 INDUCTEE David H. Hubel, MD Brain & Mind

David H. Hubel inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Edmonton, Alberta

Dr. Hubel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to our knowledge of how visual information is processed

He shared this honour with Torsten Wiesel and Roger W. Sperry.

Dr. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel co-authored Brain Mechanism of Vision

Many years later, in 2004, they published a retrospective on their teamwork in Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-year Collaboration.

Dr. Hubel was named the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard University

Dr. David Hubel published his first book, The Visual Cortex of the Brain

Dr. Hubel and Dr. Wiesel published one of their earliest ground-breaking papers

Among its many contributions, the paper suggested that neurons in the visual cortex could be categorized by the stimuli they responded to.

After finally arriving at Johns Hopkins in 1958, Dr. Hubel continued his studies of the visual cortex at the Wilmer Institute

The following year, he joined Harvard Medical School where he began collaborating with Dr. Torsten Wiesel.

Dr. Hubel applied for a year of neurological study at Johns Hopkins

His arrival at Johns Hopkins was delayed by the outbreak of the Korean War. During the war, Dr. Hubel worked in the Neuropsychiatry Division of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC. It was at Walter Reed that he began his research into the visual cortex.

Dr. Hubel graduated from medical school

Deciding to remain in Montreal, he began his residency at the Montreal General Hospital.

After graduating from McGill University with a degree in mathematics and physics, Dr. Hubel began medical school

During the summers, he worked at the Montreal Neurological Institute under the supervision of Dr. Herbert Jasper. While at the Institute, Dr. Hubel developed a keen interest in the nervous system.