Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (born 11 June 1927,

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) 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

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in 1955 and in 1960 obtained a PhD at the same institute with the dissertation ''Het Telencephalon der Actinopterygii''. 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. He was awarded the Academy Medal of the

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(KNAW) in 1998.https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/academy-medal/overzic

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

* * Desfilis, Ester; Medina, Loreta. (2016) Rudolf Nieuwenhuys "Science is tremendously susceptible to fashion" nterview 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 1927 births Living people 20th-century Dutch physicians Dutch anatomists 20th-century Dutch anatomists Dutch neurologists University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Scientists from Amsterdam {{netherlands-scientist-stub