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János Szentágothai János Szentágothai FRS ( 31 October 1912 – 8 September 1994 ) was a Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian anatomist , Professor , Member of Parliament , and President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Anthony G . doctor and grandson of Alexander Lumniczer ( whose uncle was Schöpf size , Augustus ) , great-grandson of a doctor . The general assembly of UNESCO decided the year 2012 to be dedicated to honour the 100th birthday of János Szentágothai . Biography . He was born as János Schimert , in Budapest in 1912 , to Dr Gustav Schimert and Margit Antal , in a family of doctors . He was descended from Transylvanian Saxons on his fathers side and Székely on his mothers side . He was admitted to the German grammar school in Budapest in 1930 , and was admitted to the Peter Pázmány University Medical School . Four brothers also studied in the same place . Doctors was inaugurated in 1936 . Family . On 7 June 1938 he married Alice Biberauer , who he met in the Pro Christo Student Association . They had three daughters , Catherine ( 1939 ) , Clare ( 1941 ) and Maria Christina ( 1951 ) , all three of whom entered the medical field . John Szentágothai four doctors brother lived in the United States and Germany . In his free time with pleasure fumbling with in Révfülöp weekend on the same property with plants . Academic career . Schimert started his medical studies at the Budapest University Medical School in 1930 , and was accepted in the first year by Professor Mihály Lenhossék as a research student in the Department of Anatomy . He received his MD in 1936 and continued to teach at Budapest , becoming Associate Professor in 1942 . During the Second World War ( karpaszományos ) he was a physician , airman , and a prisoner of war . He returned in 1946 . He then attended Pécs University Medical School , where he was later Head of the Anatomy Department . After the war , he resumed study of the vestibular system and dealt with the topic of neuroendocrinology . During his study at Pécs , he pursued innovative work in the field of neuroanatomy . In 1948 he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1961 , he started the department of electron microscopy in brain research in Hungary . In 1963 , he returned to Budapest to lead the Semmelweis University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy . There he mainly addressed the cerebellum and functioning of the cerebral cortex . In addition , he performed experimental research on the spinal cord and brainstem reflex mechanisms . In 1967 he was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . He headed the department until 1977 , and in 1986 officially retired from teaching . Ferenc Kiss , famous for his work produced for the human anatomy atlas , drew his textbook , which was translated into thirteen languages and more than a hundred editions . He proclaimed that half the age of most of the people speaking the development of one and a half years of age , and it will need to communicate is the most important factor . Public career . In 1956 at Pécs , he was chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Intellectuals . He did not return to public life until 1973 , when he was elected vice-president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . Four years later he became its president and therefore left the position of University department head . In 1985 , he entered parliament as a member of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian Peoples Republic . He was ( later a member of its abolition ) , involved in the work of the Hungarian Democratic Forum during the transition . She was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee . Szentágothai and his wife are buried in Budapest . Main works . - Eccles , John Carew , Masao Ito , and János Szentágothai . The cerebellum as a neuronal machine . New York : Springer-Verlag , 1967 . - Szentágothai , János . The modular architectonic principle of neural centers . Reviews of Physiology , Biochemistry and Pharmacology , Volume 98 . Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 1983 . 11–61 . - Szentágothai , János . Hypothalamic control of the anterior pituitary : an experimental-morphological study . Akadémiai Kiadó , 1968 . - Arbib , Michael Anthony , Péter Érdi , and János Szentágothai . Neural organization : Structure , function , and dynamics . The MIT Press , 1998 . - Szentágothai , János . Synaptology of the visual cortex . Visual Centers in the Brain . Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 1973 . 269–324 . Awards and recognition . - Kossuth Prize ( 1950 ) - I state fee degree ( 1970 ) – achievements in the functional structure of the nervous system research . - Academic Gold Medal ( 1985 ) - The Hungarian Order of Merit Cross with the Star ( 1992 ) - Fellow of the Royal Society Sources . - Réthelyi Nicholas John Szentágothai . In : Zs to Hungarian scientist from the lexicon . Spices . Ferenc Nagy . Budapest : Better , MTESZ ; OMIKK . 1997th 762–764 . P. . - Bela Flerkó John Szentágothai . Budapest : Academic Press , 1998th ( The last Hungarian scientists ) - Bela fisherman John Szentágothai ( 1912–1994 ) , In : Famous Hungarian doctors . Eds . Kapronczay Charles E . Water New Years Eve . Bp : Galen , 2000 , 126–131 . - Réthelyi Nicholas John Szentágothai . In : National anniversary 2012th Editor : John Eston . Bp : Balassi Institute , 2012 . 5–8 . ( PDF format . Anniversary National 2012 ) - Hungary nagylexikon XVI . ( Sel-Sat ) . Spices . Lamb Lászlóné . Budapest : Hungarian Grand Lexicon . 2003rd 644 of P. . - Choice – Parliamentary Almanac 1990 , Budapest : Local Propaganda and Publishing Company , 1990 , 233 old .