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Award for Education in Neuroscience |
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Dr. W.
Maxwell Cowan
 Dr.
Cowan was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1931. he attended
Witwatersand University in Johannesburg, South Africa where he received
a B.Sc. degree and then received his Ph.D. degree in 1956 from Oxford
University in England.
From 1953 to 1966 he was a Lecturer in
Anatomy at Pembroke College and Balliol College. In 1966, he joined the
faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine before
accepting the Chairmanship of the Department of Anatomy at Washington
University in St. Louis in 1968. In 1982, he accepted the position of
Vice President of The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and then
returned to Washington University in 1986. Since 1988, he has been a
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at The John Hopkins University
School of Medicine and also served as Vice President and Chief
Scientific Office of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase,
Maryland.
Dr. Cowan has received such awards as the
Karl Spencer Lashley Prize for Neurobiology in 1984, the Second Century
Award from Washington University School of Medicine in 1993 and a Dana
Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in Health in 1993.
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