Professor William Newsome PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Stanford University

Stanford, California, United States

Biography

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Biography

Bill Newsome is the Harman Family Professor of Neurobiology and Founding Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University.  He received a B.S. degree in physics from Stetson University and a Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology.  Dr. Newsome is a leading investigator in systems and cognitive neuroscience.  He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and simple forms of decision making. Among his honors are the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize of Tel Aviv University, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, and the Champalimaud Vision Award.  He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, to the American Philosophical Society in 2011, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.  Newsome co-chaired the NIH BRAIN working group, charged with forming a national plan for the coming decade of neuroscience research in the United States.  Bill is a husband, a father, and an enthusiastic amateur photographer.  He is an active member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California, and regularly speaks to university, seminary, and public audiences on topics in science and faith.

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Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Orthodoxy, Christianity-Protestantism, Ethics, History of Religion, History of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Theology

Science & Technology Interests

Anthropology, Biology, Biotechnology, Evolution, Human Origins, Neuroscience, Psychology

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