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Choosing Science: Stories of Perseverance, Humanity, and Success - Dr. Walle Nauta or how to stick it to the Nazis while revolutionising neuroscience

Dr. Walle Nauta or how to stick it to the Nazis while revolutionising neuroscience

Choosing Science: Stories of Perseverance, Humanity, and Success

06/19/22 • 20 min

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Dr. Walle Nauta was not only a brilliant neuroanatomist and scientist of the 20th century, but also a selfless, brave soul. He revolutionised research tools in neuroscience, making it possible to better understand one of the biggest mysteries of humankind, our brain. Exigent, but kind, intuitive, but rigorous, and most of all, humble, he lived a life to remember.
List of interesting people: John Boren, Joseph

Brady, Boyd Campbell, Sven Ebbesson, Ford Ebner,

Michael Fuortes, Robert Galambos, William Hodos, David

Hubel, Harvey Karten, JacSue Kehoe, John Mason, William

Mehler, James Petras, George Moushegian, Enrique Ramón-

Moliner, Felix Strumwasser, and Eliot Valenstein.
Resources:
Lecture- https://infinite.mit.edu/video/walle-j-h-nauta-gross-anatomy-human-brain%E2%80%9D-brain-dissection-course-mit-department-psychology

https://www.nap.edu/read/11807/chapter/16

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/nauta-walle-j-h.pdf

https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=6748569&ind=NaN

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06/19/22 • 20 min

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Choosing Science: Stories of Perseverance, Humanity, and Success - Dr. Walle Nauta or how to stick it to the Nazis while revolutionising neuroscience

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Intro: Dr. Walle Nauta was not only a brilliant neuroanatomist and scientist of the 20th century, but also a selfless, brave soul. He revolutionised research tools in neuroscience, making it possible to better understand one of the biggest mysteries of humankind, our brain. Exigent, but kind, intuitive, but rigorous, and most of all, humble, he lived a life to remember.

Born on 8th June 1916 in a family of Dutch missionaries in Malacca, Sumatra, Walle Nauta spent only his childhood

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