Neuroscience has been one of the key areas of biomedical science that the Wellcome Trust has fostered and sponsored for nearly 60 years – in fact the very first ‘fellowship’ grant awarded by the Wellcome Trust in 1937 was to Otto Loewi, who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Henry Dale for their work on the elucidation of chemical neurotransmission.
The Wellcome Trust has recently funded a research project directed by Professor Tilli Tansey (UCL) and Professor Les Iversen (Oxford) to record interviews with prominent neuroscientists, with the aim of providing resources about contemporary neuroscience for the use of present and future historians, as well as journalists, policy makers etc. Simultaneously the potential to engage young neuroscientists with their own history is offered, and some of the material generated by this work will be used for more general educational outreach activities.
Visit the Wellcome Trust Project and look at the material on twelve famous neuroscientists:
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