What is Torsten Wiesel?
{{Infobox Scientist |name = Torsten Wiesel |image = Torsten Wiesel-7Nov2006.jpg |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1924|6|3}} |birth_place = [[Uppsala]], Sweden |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = Swedish |ethnicity = |field = |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[visual system]] |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] 1981 |religion = |spouse = {{marriage|[[Jean Stein]]|1995|2007|reason=divorced}} }} '''Torsten Nils Wiesel''' (born June 3, 1924) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[neuroscientist]]. He and [[David Hubel]] won the 1981 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], for their discoveries of information processing in the [[visual system]]. The prize was shared with [[Roger Sperry]] for his independent research on the [[cerebral hemisphere]]s. After serving as [[president]] of the [[Rockefeller University]], he is now director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior at the same institution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel-bio.html |title=Torsten N. Wiesel — Biographical |publisher=nobelprize.org |accessdate=14 May 2015}}</ref> He is also an advisor to several countries and organizations, mainly helping young [[scientist]]s do [[research]]. He is a member of the President's Council of [[University of the People]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uopeople.edu/groups/leadership?d=articles/torsten_wiesel&s=203458&a=217864 |title=President Emeritus Torsten N. Wiesel |accessdate=14 May 2015 |archive-date=30 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530195257/http://uopeople.edu/groups/leadership?d=articles%2Ftorsten_wiesel&s=203458&a=217864 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|ur