His other honors and awards include fellowships from All Souls College, Oxford, and from Stanford University (Hilgard Visiting Professor) the Presidential Lecture Award from the American Academy of Neurology, two honorary doctorates, the annual Ramon Y Cajal award from the International Neuropsychiatry Society, and the Ariens-Kappers medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he was awarded the Henry Dale Medal and elected to an honorary life membership by the Royal Institution of Great Britain, where he also gave a Friday evening discourse (joining the ranks of Michael Faraday, Thomas Huxley, Humphry Davy, and dozens of Nobel Laureates). He has been called 'The Marco Polo of neuroscience' by Richard Dawkins and 'The modern Paul Broca' by Eric Kandel. Ramachandran's early work was on visual perception but he is best known for his experiments in behavioral neurology which, despite their apparent simplicity, have had a profound impact on the way we think about the brain. From Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
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