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Thomas L. Daniel

b. 1954

Biomechanist, neurophysiologist, and biology professor

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About Thomas L. Daniel

Born 1954. Thomas L. Daniel is an American biomechanist, neurophysiologist, biologist, bioengineer, biology teacher and university teacher.

Thomas Louis Daniel (born 1954) is an American biologist, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at University of Washington, and the CEO of the Washington Research Foundation. He was the interim director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Since 2006, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS and MS, and from Duke University with a PhD, where he studied with Steven Vogel and Stephen Wainwright. He was the Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at California Institute of Technology where he studied with Ted Wu until 1984. He is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science.

Awards 1996 MacArthur Fellows Program 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship

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Born
1954
Birth century
Occupation
Biomechanist, neurophysiologist, biologist, bioengineer, biology teacher, university teacher
Nationality
Education
Duke University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Washington
Employers
California Institute of Technology
Awards
MacArthur Fellows Program; Guggenheim Fellowship; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Also known as
Thomas Daniel, Thomas Louis Daniel, Tom Daniel

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biomechanist, neurophysiologist, and biology professor

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Thomas L. Daniel was born in 1954.

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Thomas L. Daniel is a biomechanist, neurophysiologist, biologist, bioengineer, biology teacher and university teacher.

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Thomas L. Daniel is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Thomas L. Daniel

· Wikidata: Q41694274

· DBpedia: Thomas Daniel (biologist)

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