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...David M. Hubel, Berry Professor of Neurobiology and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, Professor of Neurobiology, received the Trustees Award presented by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. (RPB). The award was established in 1966 to recognize "extraordinary scientific contributions to the science of ophthalmology...
Hubel and Wiesel, who have collaborated for many years, discovered that sight is controlled by a hierarchy of brain cells, with each cell passing on a small fragment of highly specialized visual information to a growing complexity of cells. These fragments are integrated into a complete image...
...Jules Stein, chairman of RPB, said the findings of Hubel and Wiesel are having a revolutionary influence in the treatment of a number of blinding conditions in the very young, including strabismus--commonly known as crossed eyes--a condition in which the two eyes do not operate in concert to produce a single image...
That was the role of Malcolm X, the black man in the white nightmare; Elie Wiesel, the ghost of Auschwitz; and, to an unmatched degree, of Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor and permanent victim of Stalin's prison camps. In 1962, during Khrushchev's brief destalinization period, readers were suddenly introduced to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a dark, spartan account, it told of the wretches who peopled the slave labor camps of Siberia, cleaved from society for uncommitted political sins, filled with what the author called "the fearlessness of those who have lost...
...Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel...