Fernando Nottebohm
{{Short description|Argentine neuroscientist}}
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| workplaces = Rockefeller University
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| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
| thesis_title = The Role of Sensory Feedback in the Development of Avian Vocalizations
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| thesis_year = 1966
| doctoral_advisor = Peter Marler
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}}Fernando Nottebohm (born 1940 in Buenos Aires) is a neuroscientist. He serves as 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.{{Scopus|id= 7005412652}}{{Cite journal
| last1 = Nottebohm | first1 = F.
| last2 = Arnold | first2 = A.
| doi = 10.1126/science.959852
| title = Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain
| journal = Science
| volume = 194
| issue = 4261
| pages = 211–213
| year = 1976
| pmid = 959852
| bibcode = 1976Sci...194..211N
| pmid = 1262540
| year = 1976
| last1 = Nottebohm
| first1 = F
| title = Central control of song in the canary, Serinus canarius
| journal = The Journal of Comparative Neurology
| volume = 165
| issue = 4
| pages = 457–86
| last2 = Stokes
| first2 = T. M.
| last3 = Leonard
| first3 = C. M.
| doi = 10.1002/cne.901650405
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| pmid = 6572982
| pmc = 393826
| year = 1983
| last1 = Goldman
| first1 = S. A.
| title = Neuronal production, migration, and differentiation in a vocal control nucleus of the adult female canary brain
| journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
| volume = 80
| issue = 8
| pages = 2390–4
| last2 = Nottebohm
| first2 = F
| doi=10.1073/pnas.80.8.2390
| bibcode = 1983PNAS...80.2390G
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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.{{Cite journal | last1 = Nottebohm | first1 = Fernando | author-link1 = Fernando Nottebohm | year = 2014 | title = Peter Marler (1928–2014) Pioneering interpreter of animal language. | journal = Nature | volume = 512 | issue = 372 | pages = 372| doi = 10.1038/512372a | pmid = 25164741 | title-link = Peter Robert Marler | doi-access = free }} Afterwards, he conducted extensive investigations of the song of the rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis).
Research
Nottebohm is best known for his work on neurogenesis in the adult vertebrate brain,Nottebohm F. From bird song to neurogenesis. Sci Am. 1989 Feb;260(2):74-9. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0289-74. PMID 2643827. a phenomenon that previously had been thought impossible by most scientists.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024|reason=Need sourcing for claimed impossibility under science.}}
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
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- 1982 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1982 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Fernando Nottebohm |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/fernando-nottebohm |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119094311/https://www.amacad.org/person/fernando-nottebohm |url-status=live }}
- 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{{Cite web |title=Fernando Nottebohm |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/8924.html |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=www.nasonline.org |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408144344/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/8924.html |url-status=live }}
- 1990 MERIT Award, National Institutes of Mental Health.
- 1991 Member of the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Fernando+Nottebohm&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=search.amphilsoc.org |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408144255/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Fernando+Nottebohm&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |url-status=live }}
- 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{{Cite web|title = Neurosciences|url = http://www.fondation-ipsen.org/en/colloques-prizes-publications/neurosciences/|website = www.fondation-ipsen.org|access-date = 2015-11-16|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170721151938/http://www.fondation-ipsen.org/en/colloques-prizes-publications/neurosciences|archive-date = 2017-07-21|url-status = dead}} (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{{Cite web|title = Past Winners {{!}} Rosenstiel Award {{!}} Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center {{!}} Brandeis University|url = http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/rosenstielaward/past.html|website = www.brandeis.edu|access-date = 2015-11-16|archive-date = 2019-05-22|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190522052821/http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/rosenstielaward/past.html|url-status = live}} (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.{{Cite web|title = Fernando Nottebohm {{!}} The Franklin Institute|url = https://www.fi.edu/laureates/fernando-nottebohm|website = www.fi.edu|date = 15 January 2014|access-date = 2015-11-16|archive-date = 2015-11-17|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023539/https://www.fi.edu/laureates/fernando-nottebohm|url-status = live}} The Franklin Institute.
- 2006 Sven Berggren Lecture and Prize. Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.
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Category:Scientists from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine neuroscientists
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
Category:Rockefeller University faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:20th-century Argentine biologists
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Category:Argentine emigrants to the United States
Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society
Category:Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates