About Julian Jack
Born 1936. Julian Jack is a New Zealand physiologist, physician and university teacher.
James Julian Bennett Jack (born 25 March 1936) is a New Zealand physiologist.
Education Jack graduated from the University of Otago with a PhD in 1960. After his PhD, Jack was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1960 from Magdalen College, Oxford where he was awarded Master of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine degrees in 1963.
His research concerns how nerve cells, or neurons, communicate with one another in the nervous system. Furthermore, how chemical and electrical signals move through neural networks, such as the spinal cord or cerebral cortex. His former doctoral students include David Attwell, Michael Hausser
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Who is Julian Jack?
New Zealand physiologist (1936— )
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Julian Jack was born on 25 March 1936 in Invercargill.
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Julian Jack is a physiologist, physician and university teacher.
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Julian Jack is New Zealand.
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