Key Thinkers in Neuroscience

Andy Wickens is a former Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His main area of expertise is in biological psychology and neuroscience.

1. Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934). 2. Charles Sherrington (1857-1952). 3. John Langley (1852-1925). 4. Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918). Wilder Penfield (1891-1976). 4. Edgar Adrian (1889-1977). 5. Henry Hallet Dale (1875-1968). 6.Walter Hess (1881-1973). 7. Karl Lashley (1890-1958). 8. Giuseppi Moruzzi (1910-1986) and Horace Magoun (1907-1991). 9. Donald Hebb (1904-1985). 10. Nathaniel Kleitman (1895-1999). 11. Andrew Hodgkin (1914-1998) and Andrew Huxley (1917-2012). 12. Paul MacLean (1913-2007) 13. John Eccles (1903-1997). 14. Bernard Katz (1911-2003). 15. Seymour Kety (1915-2000) 16. Brenda Milner (b. 1918). 17. James Olds (1922-1976) 18. Julius Axelrod (1912-2004). 19. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012). 20. Roger Sperry (1913–1994). 21. David Hubel (1926-2013) and Torsten Wiesel (b.1924). 22. Arvid Carlsson (b.1923). 23. Norman Geschwind (1926-1984). 24. Paul Geengard (b. 1925). 25. Benjamin Libet (1916-2007). 26. Eric Kandel (b. 1929). 27. Erwin Neher (b.1944) and Bert Sakmann (b.1942). 28. David Marr (1945-1980). 29. Mortimer Mishkin (b. 1926) and Leslie Ungerleider (b. 1946). 30. Timothy Bliss (b. 1940) and Terje Lømo (b. 1935). 31. Richard Axel (b. 1946) and Linda Buck (b. 1947). 32. Giacomo Rizzolatti (b. 1937). 33. John O’Keefe (b. 1939). 34. Michael Gazziniga (b. 1939). 35. Joseph LeDoux (b. 1949). 36. Patricia Churchland (b. 1943) and Paul Churchland (b. 1942).