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Wiesel

[ wi-zel ]

noun

  1. El·ie [el, -ee], Eliezer, 1928–2016, U.S. author, born in Romania: Nobel Peace Prize 1986.


Wiesel

/ ˈviːzəl /

noun

  1. WieselElie1928MUSPOLITICS: hunan-rights campaigner Elie. born 1928, US human rights campaigner: noted esp for his documentaries of wartime atrocities against the Jews; Nobel peace prize (1986); honorary knighthood (2006)


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Once Hubel and Wiesel even tried using pictures of women from magazines to stimulate the cat’s neurons.

In my group, we did something similar, which was more faithful to the physiology that Hubel and Wiesel found.

In a 1999 publication about HMAX, published in Nature, Poggio and his colleagues remark that their model was an extension of Hubel and Wiesel’s hierarchical model of visual processing.

Success in computer vision required inspiration from Hubel and Wiesel’s discoveries.

I asked Wiesel, who is now 97, to recount what happened next.

Elie Wiesel, who was involved with the Irgun Zionist underground, is a 1986 Peace Laureate.

Has it not been vividly described in all its horror by Eli Wiesel and others?

His list is impressive: Elie Wiesel, Mark Helprin, Christopher R. Beha, and Alice McDermott.

Well, he defended his remarks by citing Nobel Laureatue Elie Wiesel.

With his win, Obama follows in the footsteps of Elie Wiesel, Kissinger, Martin Luther King, Carter—and Woodrow Wilson after WWI.

Wiesel soon became the assiduous and indispensable friend of the family.

Herself unmarried, she consented to become the intermediary between him and the abandoned Pauline Wiesel.

No one was more talked of for her beauty at this time than Pauline Wiesel.

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