Teuber, Hans-Lukas Obituary
<p>Oct 30, 2009 11:11 AM  nickname was  Lukas  (not Hans).
 
I had him in 9.00...  he advised me abt med school 
(you'll always have a job!... no matter what happens with funding).
 
born 1916 died while swimming in Br Virg Islands in 1977.
one of the most influ. neuropsychs of his generation.
Headed psychophys lab at NYU Bellevue.  He blt the dept of psych at MIT.
brot together neuroant neurophys neuropsyc and cog psych.
Came to MIT in the fall of 1961.
 
He taught 9.00  he gave all the lectures.
 
<b>His first major appt was Walle Nauta  - a real profess neuroanatomist.</b>
The most distinguished one in the world.
 
He hired Emilio Bizzi - single neuron physio in a psych dept!
 
and then <b>Jerry Fodor</b>!  PhD in philosophy.  this was just after Chomsky's devasting review of B F Skinner
and consistent with the absence of any appts in animal learning.
 
Also had a center for the study of brain-injured patients at a univ with no hospital or med school!
 
Published with Brenda Milner.
 
Posthumous  address by him ..  
 
"Our particular science is as central as physics, ultim more so.
All of us did do abide by a new Hippocr oath, never to do harm, always to heal,
rather than hinder, to make life richer, and to make it free.
 
An award was to be given to him for his achievements by MIT ... it read ..
 
He displays two high gifts...  that of a scientists perceptual wonder at the the mysteries of brain and behavior and
that of the artists compassion for the springs of thought and action in his fellow human beings.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Obit by Charles Gross of Princeton, Dept of Psych.
 
sroked on object recog and the temporal lobes.</p>