Walle Nauta 2725781 205519649 2008-04-14T09:31:07Z 24.6.115.170 "more that" -> "more than" Dr. '''Walle J.H. Nauta''' (1916, Medan, [[Indonesia]]–[[March 24]] [[1994]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]) was a leading [[neuroscience|neuroscientist]]. He was an Institute Professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. He invented the Nauta Silver Impregnation Method stain, used for tracing degenerating nerve fibers. He attended the [[University of Leiden]] from 1934 to 1941, and received an MD degree in 1942 and a PhD in anatomy and neurophysiology in 1945 from the [[University of Utrecht]]. He taught at the University of Utrecht (1941-1946), the University of Leyden (1946-47), the [[University of Zurich]] (1947-1951), the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore|University of Maryland]] (1955-1964), and at MIT (1964-1986), where he was named Institute Professor in 1973. He was a neurophysiologist in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at the [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center|Walter Reed Army Institute of Research]] (1951-1964) and a neuroanatomist at [[McLean Hospital]] (1975). Dr. Nauta was the author or co-author of more than 100 papers for professional journals and books. He was a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Philosophical Society]], the [[Society for Neuroscience]], which he served as president, the [[American Association of Anatomists]] and the [[American Neurological Association]]. ==External references== *[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/nauta-0330.html Obituary] {{DEFAULTSORT:Nauta, Walle}} [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:1994 deaths]] [[Category:American neuroscientists]] [[Category:American anatomists]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]]