Fernando Nottebohm

Fernando Nottebohm (born 1940 in Buenos Aires) is a neuroscientist and is the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor at Rockefeller University as well as being head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and director of the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology.[2][3][4][5]

Fernando Nottebohm
Born1940 (age 80–81)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsRockefeller University
ThesisThe Role of Sensory Feedback in the Development of Avian Vocalizations (1966)
Doctoral advisorPeter Marler[1]
Websitelab.rockefeller.edu/nottebohm

Education

Nottebohm was born in Argentina and received his PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 while working with Peter Marler.[1] Afterwards, he worked on some pioneering studies of the song of the rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis).

Research

Nottebohm's contributions to neuroscience are substantial , he is most famous for providing definitive proof that neurogenesis occurs in the adult vertebrate brain, a notion that was considered impossible by most scientists beforehand. As quoted from the citation of his 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in life Science:

The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science is awarded to Fernando Nottebohm for his discovery of neuronal replacement in the adult vertebrate brain, and the elaboration of the mechanism and choreography of this phenomenon; and also for showing that neuronal stem cells are the responsible agents, thereby generating a completely new approach to the quest for cures for brain injury and degenerative disease.

Career
  • 1967-71 Assistant professor, Rockefeller University
  • 1971-76 Associate professor, Rockefeller University
  • 1976–present Professor, Rockefeller University
  • 1981–present Director, Rockefeller University Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology, Millbrook, New York

Honors and awards
  • 1982 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 1982 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • 1982 Kenneth Craik Research Award of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, England, for outstanding scholarship in physiological psychology.
  • 1984 Pattison Award for Distinguished Research in the Neurosciences.
  • 1986 Nelson Medical Lectureship, awarded by the School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis
  • 1986 Elliott Coue’s Award, American Ornithologists’ Union.
  • 1987 Painton Award, Cooper Ornithological Society.
  • 1988 Member of the National Academy of Sciences. USA
  • 1990 MERIT Award, National Institutes of Mental Health.
  • 1991 Member of the American Philosophical Society.
  • 1992 Charles A. Dana Award (jointly with Masakazu Konishi) for pioneering achievement in The Health Sciences.
  • 1995 King Solomon Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 1996 Named to the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Distinguished Professorship, Rockefeller University
  • 1999 Fondation Ipsen Neuronal Plasticity Prize[6] (jointly with Peter Marler and Masakazu Konishi).
  • 2003 Ernst Florey Plenary Lecture. 29th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference & 15th Meeting of German Neuroscience Society.
  • 2003 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in the Basic Medical Sciences[7] (shared with Masakazu Konishi and Peter Marler).
  • 2004 Karl Spencer Lashley Award (shared with Masakazu Konishi). American Philosophical Society
  • 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences.[8] The Franklin Institute.
  • 2006 Sven Berggren Lecture and Prize. Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.

References
  1. Nottebohm, Fernando (2014). "Peter Marler (1928–2014) Pioneering interpreter of animal language". Nature. 512 (372): 372. doi:10.1038/512372a. PMID 25164741.
  2. Fernando Nottebohm's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. Nottebohm, F.; Arnold, A. (1976). "Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain". Science. 194 (4261): 211–213. Bibcode:1976Sci...194..211N. doi:10.1126/science.959852. PMID 959852.
  4. Nottebohm, F; Stokes, T. M.; Leonard, C. M. (1976). "Central control of song in the canary, Serinus canarius". The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 165 (4): 457–86. doi:10.1002/cne.901650405. PMID 1262540. S2CID 24130534.
  5. Goldman, S. A.; Nottebohm, F (1983). "Neuronal production, migration, and differentiation in a vocal control nucleus of the adult female canary brain". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 80 (8): 2390–4. Bibcode:1983PNAS...80.2390G. doi:10.1073/pnas.80.8.2390. PMC 393826. PMID 6572982.
  6. "Neurosciences". www.fondation-ipsen.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  7. "Past Winners | Rosenstiel Award | Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  8. "Fernando Nottebohm | The Franklin Institute". www.fi.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
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