Benjamin Libet
Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Andrea Nani
Consciousness 2014 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_25 (opens in new tab)
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| Keywords | Benjamin libet Pennsylvania medical school Albany medical college Pennsylvania hospital Conscious veto |
| Key points | The text is a biographical account of Benjamin Libet's career, noting that he conducted pioneering studies on consciousness and free will and listing his academic and research positions in Chicago, Albany, Philadelphia, Canberra, and San Francisco. |
Abstract
Benjamin Libet (Chicago, Illinois, 12 April 1916–Davis, California, 23 July 2007) was a scientist who conducted pioneering studies on consciousness and free will. He studied physiology, and between 1945 and 1948, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. During his academic career, he was a lecturer at the Albany Medical College, New York; research fellow in neurochemistry at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; and instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. In 1956, he collaborated with Sir John Eccles at Canberra (Australia) and subsequently became member of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.