Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS (born 1942) is regents professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the

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, Tucson and director, Center for Insect Science,

. He received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. at

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Awards

*1994

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

*1995

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

*2002

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

Works

Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
Nicholas James Strausfeld, Harvard University Press, 2012,
"Dimorphic Olfactory Lobes in the Arthropoda"
''International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste'', Editor Thomas E. Finger, John Wiley and Sons, 2009,
"Pathways in Dipteran Insects for Early Visual Motion Processing"
''Motion vision: computational, neural, and ecological constraints'', Editors Johannes M. Zanker, Jochen Zeil, Springer, 2001,
"Oculomotor Control in Insects"
''Neurons, Networks, and Motor Behavior'', Editors Paul S. G. Stein, Sten Grillner, Douglas G. Stuart, Allen I. Selverston, MIT Press, 1999,

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