Pasko Rakic

Paško Rakic ​​(* 1933 in Ruma, Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Yugoslavian- American neuroscientist at Yale University.

Life

Rakic ​​studied medicine at the University of Belgrade and then began a career as a neurosurgeon. His research began in 1962 as a Fellow at Harvard University.

Prizes and awards

Rakic ​​has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; He is also on the board of the Society for Neuroscience. Together with Thomas Jessell and Sten Grillner he won the 2008 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience.

Rakic ​​was endowed with $ 50,000 15th Annual Bristol -Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in the Neurosciences. In 2002 he received with his wife Patricia Goldman - Rakic ​​the Ralph W. Gerard Prize -.

The Norwegian Academy of Sciences elected him a member.

In 1990, the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences made ​​him a corresponding member. In 1992 he received the International Prize of the Fyssen Foundation.

Private

He was married to the neuroscientist Patricia Goldman - Rakic ​​, who died on 31 July 2003.