Pioneers of Neurobiology ─ My Brilliant Eccentric Hereos

Nichols presents readers with a collection of profiles of various neurobiologists, and the university departments that have inspired him in his own research and career. The author has organized his text in four parts. Part one is focused on neurobiologists hailing from the UK and includes profiles of J.P. Quilliam, R.J.S. McDowall, the Oxford Department of Physiology, and others. Part two is focused on neurobiologists worldwide, including J.V. Luco of Chile, Hugo Arechiga of Mexico, Imgard Dietzel of Germany, and many others. The third part is focused on the U.S. and features Ed Zigler and Bob Galambos, Denis Baylor, and several others. The final part is focused specifically on the work of Stephen Kuffler and his circle. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

John Nicholls is Professor of Neurobiology at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. Born in London in 1929, he received a medical degree from Charing Cross Hospital and a Ph.D. from the Department of Biophysics at University College London, where he did research under the direction of Sir Bernard Katz. He has worked at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Universities, and at the Biocenter in Basel. His great friend Stephen Kuffler created the first department of Neurobiology in the world. Together, they did many experiments and conceived From Neuron to Brain, a textbook on the nervous system. Dr. Nicholls has given courses in neurobiology at Woods Hole and Cold Spring Harbor, and in universities throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His work, widely recognized and published in leading journals, concerns repair of the nervous system after injury and the origin of the respiratory rhythm.