Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist, born in 1903, who was a co-recipient with George Wald and Ragnar Granit of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. After a period as associate professor of physiology at Cornell Medical College he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1949 became professor of biophysics and chairman of the Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. In 1953 he joined Rockefeller University as professor of neurophysiology. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948, the American Philosophical Society in 1952 and the Royal Society as a Foreign Member in 1966.
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Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903
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for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision
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Then he became professor of biophysics and chairman of the Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University in 1949
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a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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was an American physiologist
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for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision
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professor of biophysics and chairman of the Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University in 1949
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Hartline joined the staff of Rockefeller University, New York City, in 1953 as professor of neurophysiology
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for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision
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"year": "1903"
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"awardYear": "1967"
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