데이비드 H. 허블

소개

데이비드 헌터 허블(영어: David Hunter Hubel, FRS, 1926년 2월 27일 ~ 2013년 9월 22일)은 캐나다 출신의 미국의 신경생리학자이다. 1981년에 대뇌반구의 기능과 시각정보화 과정에 관한 연구로 토르스텐 비셀과 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

David Hunter Hubel was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. For much of his career, Hubel worked as the Professor of Neurobiology at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School. In 1978, Hubel and Wiesel were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. In 1983, Hubel received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.