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.