Hubel

[ hyoo-buhl or, often, yoo- ]

/ ˈhyu bəl or, often, ˈyu- /

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noun

David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.

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How to use Hubel in a sentence

I asked Margaret Livingstone, a student and longtime colleague of David Hubel who’s now a visual neuroscientist at Harvard, about the importance of Hubel and Weisel’s early discoveries.
The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See - Issue 107: The Edge|Phil Jaekl|October 20, 2021|Nautilus
Hubel and Wiesel showed that vision was constructed through a cascade of firing cells.
The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See - Issue 107: The Edge|Phil Jaekl|October 20, 2021|Nautilus
In the following weeks, Hubel and Wiesel discovered a response pattern in the cortical cells.
The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See - Issue 107: The Edge|Phil Jaekl|October 20, 2021|Nautilus
Armed with the advanced tech, Hubel and a new colleague, Torsten Wiesel—a budding Swedish researcher around the same age—set out to explore the visual cortex of living cats.
The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See - Issue 107: The Edge|Phil Jaekl|October 20, 2021|Nautilus

Unfastening the belt, Hubel untied the inner bag, and poured the contents upon the table.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields|Charles W. Hall
You were the daughter of Paul Hubel, of Schleswig—were you not?
Adrift in the Ice-Fields|Charles W. Hall