Rudolf Nieuwenhuys

Rudolf Nieuwenhuys, M.D., PhD (born 11 June 1927, Amsterdam) is a Dutch neuroanatomist, Emeritus Professor of Neuroanatomy at The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is recognised for his contribution to the field of comparative neuroanatomy. Professor Nieuwenhuys graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam in 1955 and in 1960 obtained a PhD at the same institute with the dissertation Het Telencephalon der Actinopterygii. He is author of important works in neuroanatomy including The Central Nervous System Of The Vertebrates and The Human Central Nervous System.

Publications

• Nieuwenhuys, Donkelaar, Nicholson (1998) The Central Nervous System of the Vertebrates. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18262-4
• Nieuwenhuys, Voogd, Huijzen (2008) The Human Central Nervous System. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34686-9

References

• Biography at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience website
• Nicholson and Smeets (1992) Rudolf Nieuwenhuys: Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Neuroanatomy in Nijmegen. Brain Behav Evol 1992;39:381–387. DOI:10.1159/000114133