An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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  • 1532

The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.

Amer. J. Physiol., 121, 400-15, 1938.

Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical introduction by Hartline in F. Ratliff (ed.). Studies on excitation and inhibition in the retina, New York, [1974].

In 1967 Hartline shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Granit (No. 1534) and G. Wald (No. 1535) "for his discovery of the optical nerve network."



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , OPHTHALMOLOGY › Physiology of Vision, PSYCHOLOGY › Psychophysics
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