Rudolf Nieuwenhuys

Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (born 11 June 1927, Amsterdam)[1] is a Dutch neuroanatomist, Emeritus Professor of Neuroanatomy and Comparative Neuroanatomy at the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He is recognised for his contribution to the field of comparative neuroanatomy. Professor Nieuwenhuys graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam in 1955 and in 1960 obtained a PhD at the same institute with the dissertation Het Telencephalon der Actinopterygii.[2] He started his research in the field of neuroanatomy in The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is author of important works in neuroanatomy including The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, The Human Central Nervous System and Towards a New Neuromorphology.

Rudolf Nieuwenhuys
Born
Rudolf Nieuwenhuys

(1927-06-11) 11 June 1927

He was awarded the Academy Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 1998.[3]

Publications
  • Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf (1985) Chemoarchitecture of the Brain. Springer, Heidelberg. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-70426-0
  • Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; ten Donkelaar, Hans J.; Nicholson, Charles (1998). The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates. Springer, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18262-4
  • Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; Voogd, Jan; van Huijzen, Chris (2008) The Human Central Nervous System. 4th edition. Springer, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34686-9
  • Nieuwenhuys, Rudolf; Puelles, Luis (2016) Towards a New Neuromorphology. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25693-1

References
  1. Radboud UMC Biographies
  2. https://lib.uva.nl/permalink/31UKB_UAM1_INST/l6urij/alma990028650500205131
  3. https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/academy-medal/overzicht
  • Nicholson, Charles; Smeets, Wil J.A.J. (1992). "Rudolf Nieuwenhuys: Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Neuroanatomy in Nijmegen". Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 39 (6): 381–387. doi:10.1159/000114133. PMID 1498658.
  • Desfilis, Ester; Medina, Loreta. (2016) Rudolf Nieuwenhuys "Science is tremendously susceptible to fashion" [interview]. Mètode 2016 - 89. Online only. The secrets of the brain - Spring 2016. https://metode.org/issues/monographs/en-rudolf-nieuwenhuys.html
  • https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n78042676
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