Fernando Nottebohm (born 1940 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata ...

) is a neuroscientist and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at

Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a Private university, private Medical research, biomedical Research university, research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York (state), New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medica ...

, as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for

Ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

and

Ethology Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a term also describes the scientific and objective ...

Education

Nottebohm was born in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...

and received his PhD in

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1966 while working with

Peter Marler Peter Robert Marler ForMemRS (February 24, 1928 – July 5, 2014) was a British-born American ethologist and zoosemiotician known for his research on animal sign communication and the science of bird song. A 1964 Guggenheim Fellow, he was eme ...

. Afterwards, he conducted extensive investigations of the song of the rufous-collared sparrow (''Zonotrichia capensis'').

Research

Nottebohm is best known for his work on

neurogenesis Neurogenesis is the process by which nervous system cells, the neurons, are produced by neural stem cells (NSCs). It occurs in all species of animals except the porifera (sponges) and placozoans. Types of NSCs include neuroepithelial cells (NECs ...

in the adult

vertebrate Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxon, taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () (chordates with vertebral column, backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the ...

brain The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head ( cephalization), usually near organs for special ...

, a phenomenon that previously had been thought impossible by most scientists.

Career

*1967-71 Assistant professor, Rockefeller University *1971-76 Associate professor, Rockefeller University *1976–present Professor, Rockefeller University *1981–present Director, Rockefeller University Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology, Millbrook, New York

Honors and awards

*1982 Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsi ...

*1982 Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, ...

. *1982 Kenneth Craik Research Award of St. John's College, Cambridge University, England, for outstanding scholarship in physiological psychology. *1984 Pattison Award for Distinguished Research in the Neurosciences. *1986 Nelson Medical Lectureship, awarded by the School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis *1986 Elliott Coue's Award, American Ornithologists’ Union. *1987 Painton Award, Cooper Ornithological Society. *1988 Member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...

. USA *1990 MERIT Award, National Institutes of Mental Health. *1991 Member of the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communi ...

. *1992 Charles A. Dana Award (jointly with Masakazu Konishi) for pioneering achievement in The Health Sciences. *1995 King Solomon Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. *1996 Named to the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Distinguished Professorship, Rockefeller University *1999 Fondation Ipsen Neuronal Plasticity Prize (jointly with

and Masakazu Konishi). *2003 Ernst Florey Plenary Lecture. 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference & 15th Meeting of German Neuroscience Society. *2003 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in the Basic Medical Sciences (shared with Masakazu Konishi and Peter Marler). *2004 Karl Spencer Lashley Award (shared with Masakazu Konishi).

*2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences.

The Franklin Institute The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named after the American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memor ...

. *2006 Sven Berggren Lecture and Prize.

Royal Physiographic Society in Lund The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund ( sv, Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund), is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. It was founded in Lund, on December 2, 1772, and received a Royal Charter by Gustav III, on March 6, 1778.

References

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