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Peter Somogyi

FRS FMedSci
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Born 1950 02 27
Nationality Hungarian, British
Occupation Professor of Neurobiology
Employer University of Oxford
Known for Research on neuronal networks in the brain

Peter Somogyi FRS FMedSci is the former Director of the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, England.

Amongst many scientific honours he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2000, and awarded the first (together with hungarian co-winners Gyorgy Buzsaki and Tamás Freund) Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Brain Prize in 2011.

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