American Physiological Society, EB 2009, New Orleans.
The August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship of the American Physiology Society's Comparative and Evolutionary Section is awarded to a distinguished scientist who has made major and meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the APS Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section. * It is the most prestigious award of the section. The awardee will deliver an honorary award lecture at EB and will be recognized at the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section Luncheon and Business Meeting at the EB meeting
They are the innovators, the young scientists who explore the world with an altogether original eye. They look at a jellyfish and see a way to understand the beating of our hearts. They design a general method to extract the most information with the least effort, then mathematically prove that no one will ever find a better way. They did into the core mystery of how it is, exactly, that the tangled knot of tissue and chemicals between our ears give rise to thoughts. The big questions, attacked from unorthodox directions: It takes nothing less to make it as one of our [Popular Science] Brilliant 10.
