Peter Somogyi | |
Birth Date: | 1950 02 27 |
Nationality: | Hungarian, British |
Occupation: | Professor of Neurobiology |
Employer: | University of Oxford |
Known For: | Research on neuronal networks in the brain |
Website: | https://pharm.ox.ac.uk/research/somogyi-group |
Peter Somogyi is the former Director of the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at the University Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, England.[1]
Amongst many scientific honours he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2000,[2] and awarded the first (together with hungarian co-winners Gyorgy Buzsaki and Tamás Freund) Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Brain Prize in 2011.[3]