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THE death of Prof. Selig Hecht in New York on September 18, 1947, at the age of fifty-five, deprives the physiology of vision of one of its most outstanding workers. Hecht was born in Austria and was brought to the United States as a child. He studied and Worked in the United States, in England, Germany and Italy. After a broad biological training, he devoted his life to the study of the mechanisms of vision, considered as a branch of general physiology. He became professor of biophysics at Columbia University and made his laboratory an international centre of visual research.
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PIRENNE, M. Prof. Selig Hecht. Nature 161, 673 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161673a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161673a0