Fernando Nottebohm

Fernando Nottebohm is a neuroscientist and professor at Rockefeller University, where he also heads the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and directs the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology. Nottebohm is best known for discovering definitive proof that neurogenesis occurs in the adult vertebrate brain, a notion previously considered impossible by most scientists. In 2010, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences for “generating a completely new approach to the quest for cures for brain injury and degenerative disease.”