Alan Cowey, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British neuroscientists
Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1935
Date of Death: 20-Dec-2012
Profession: neuroscientist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Alan Cowey
- Alan Cowey FMedSci, FRS (28 April 1935 – 19 December 2012) was a British scientist and academic, and the Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Oxford.
- His primary interest was in the way in which we interpret the visual world.
- He gained a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1957 and a PhD from Cambridge in 1961.
- He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998.
- In 2000 he received an honorary DSc from the University of Durham, and in 2007 he presented the Royal Society's Ferrier Lecture.
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