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About Robert Shapley
- Robert Shapley is an American neurophysiologist, the Natalie Clews Spencer Professor of the Sciences at New York University, a professor in the Center for Neural Science and an associate member of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.Shapley received an A.B.
- Degree from Harvard College (1965) and a Ph.D.
- from Rockefeller University (1970).
- With a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, he went to Northwestern University and the University of Cambridge.
- He served on the US National Research Council's Committee on Vision.
- He graduated from Harvard University, and from Rockefeller University with a PhD in neurophysiology and biophysics.
- In 1986 he received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship from the MacArthur Fellows Program.
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