Gulyás Balázs, Somogyi Peter
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, UK.
Biogr Mem Fellows R Soc. 2013 Dec 1;59:383-406. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2012.0038.
János Szentágothai was an eminent, creative and renowned neuroscientist, who made pioneering and seminal discoveries contributing to our current understanding of brain functions. His vision of the brain as a network of specific populations of nerve cells, each engaging in selective operations and self-organizing into modules, has provided the framework and stimulus for generations of neuroscientists. His irrepressible curiosity and enthusiasm for the beauty in the organization of the brain never faded. He had a towering intellect and was a great humanist. Szentágothai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1912 and died in his native city in 1994. He was educated and worked in Hungary. During the six decades of his scientific activity, he made remarkably original and lasting contributions to the neurosciences, including the exploration of basic architectural features of many brain areas, the functional-anatomical bases of elementary brain operations such as reflex arcs, the vestibulo-ocular system, the brain control of hormonal regulation, general organizational principles of the neuraxis, the organization of the cerebellum and the modular organization of the neocortex. He left for posterity not only his discoveries, which have stood the test of time, but also a vigorous school of pupils as well as a large number of friends and admirers. Thanks to him neuroscience is one of the strongest scientific fields in Hungary today.
雅诺什· Szentágothai 是一位杰出、富有创造力且声名远扬的神经科学家，他做出了开创性和具有重大意义的发现，为我们当前对大脑功能的理解做出了贡献。他将大脑视为由特定神经细胞群体构成的网络，每个群体都参与选择性操作并自我组织成模块的观点，为一代又一代的神经科学家提供了框架和激励。他对大脑组织之美的抑制不住的好奇心和热情从未消退。他有着卓越的才智，是一位伟大的人文主义者。Szentágothai 于1912年出生在匈牙利布达佩斯，并于1994年在他的家乡去世。他在匈牙利接受教育并工作。在其六十年的科学活动中，他对神经科学做出了极其原创且持久的贡献，包括对许多脑区基本结构特征的探索、诸如反射弧、前庭眼系统等基本脑操作的功能解剖学基础、大脑对激素调节的控制、神经轴的一般组织原则、小脑的组织以及新皮层的模块化组织。他不仅为后人留下了经得住时间考验的发现，还留下了一个充满活力的学生群体以及大量的朋友和仰慕者。多亏了他，神经科学如今才成为匈牙利最强大的科学领域之一。
