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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Mortimer Mishkin

Title:

Senior Investigator

Affiliation:

National Institutes of Health

9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda,Maryland 20892 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2021

Award Discipline:

Behavioral and Social Science

Award Year:

2009

Citation:

"For his contributions to understanding the neural basis of perception and memory in primates, notably the delineation of sensory neocortical processing systems especially for vision, audition, and somatic sensation, and the organization of memory systems in the brain."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.

 

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