| LC control no. | n 90621906 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mishkin, Mortimer |
| Located | Bethesda (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1926-12-13 |
| Death date | 2021-10-02 |
| Place of birth | Fitchburg (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Bethesda (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Neuropsychology |
| Affiliation | National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) McGill University |
| Profession or occupation | Neuroscientists |
| Found in | Tokyo Symp. on Vision, Memory, and the Temp. Lobe (1989). Vision, memory, and the temporal lobe, c1990: CIP t.p. (Mortimer Mishkin; MD; Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Nat. Inst. of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.) NIMH, LN, Section on Cognitive Neuroscience WWW people p., viewed January 5, 2015 (Ph.D.; Chief, Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH) Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 29, 2021 (in obituary dated Oct. 6, 2021: Mortimer Mishkin, a neuroscientist who received the National Medal of Science for his role in unlocking some of the most vexing mysteries of the brain, including how memories are made and kept, died Oct. 2 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 94. Dr. Mishkin spent more than six decades at the National Institutes of Health, where he served for years as chief of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology within the National Institute of Mental Health. Mortimer Mishkin was born in Fitchburg, Mass., on Dec. 13, 1926. He studied psychology at McGill University in Montreal, where he received a master's degree in 1949 and a PhD in 1951. He was hired in 1955 at NIH and spent the rest of his career there, serving as chief of the section on cognitive neuroscience. He retired in 2016, at age 90, but returned the next year as a scientist emeritus) |
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