Rudolf Nieuwenhuys


Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (born 11 June 1927, Amsterdam is a Dutch neuroanatomist, Emeritus Professor of Neuroanatomy at The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is recognised for his contribution to the field of comparative neuroanatomy. Professor Nieuwenhuys graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam in 1955 and in 1960 obtained a PhD at the same institute with the dissertation Het Telencephalon der Actinopterygii. He is author of important works in neuroanatomy including The Central Nervous System Of The Vertebrates and The Human Central Nervous System.

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