Stephen Kuffler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stephen Kuffler

American neurophysiologist

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1913

Place of Birth: Austria-Hungary

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1980

Profession: professor, neurologist, physiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Stephen William Kuffler (August 24 Táp, Austria-Hungary, 1913 – October 11, 1980) was a pre-eminent Hungarian-American neurophysiologist.
He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Neuroscience".
Kuffler, alongside noted Nobel Laureates Sir John Eccles and Sir Bernard Katz gave research lectures at the University of Sydney, strongly influencing its intellectual environment while working at Sydney Hospital.
He founded the Harvard Neurobiology department in 1966, and made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of vision, neural coding, and the neural implementation of behavior.
He is known for his research on neuromuscular junctions in frogs, presynaptic inhibition, and the neurotransmitter GABA.
In 1972, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.