Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (11 June 1927 – 4 November 2024) was a Dutch

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who was Emeritus Professor of Neuroanatomy and Comparative Neuroanatomy at the

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. He is recognised for his contribution to the field of comparative neuroanatomy. Professor Nieuwenhuys graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the

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in 1955 and in 1960 obtained a PhD at the same institute with the dissertation ''Het

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''. He started his research in the field of neuroanatomy in The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was the author of important works in neuroanatomy including The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, The Human Central Nervous System and Towards a New Neuromorphology. In 1998, Nieuwenhuys was awarded the Academy Medal of the

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(KNAW). Nieuwenhuys was born in

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on 11 June 1927, and died in

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on 4 November 2024, at the age of 97.

Publications

* Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf (1985) Chemoarchitecture of the Brain. Springer, Heidelberg. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-70426-0 * Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; ten Donkelaar, Hans J.; Nicholson, Charles (1998). The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates. Springer, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18262-4 * Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; Voogd, Jan; van Huijzen, Chris (2008) The Human Central Nervous System. 4th edition. Springer, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34686-9 * Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; Puelles, Luis (2016) Towards a New Neuromorphology. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25693-1

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* * Desfilis, Ester; Medina, Loreta. (2016) Rudolf Nieuwenhuys "Science is tremendously susceptible to fashion" nterview Mètode 2016 - 89. Online only. The secrets of the brain - Spring 2016. https://metode.org/issues/monographs/en-rudolf-nieuwenhuys.html * https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n78042676 1927 births 2024 deaths 20th-century Dutch physicians 20th-century Dutch anatomists Dutch neurologists University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Scientists from Amsterdam {{netherlands-scientist-stub