Previously
he was a Guggenheim Fellow at Yale University’s School
of Medicine and a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Physiology
Laboratories of Cambridge University. He is a graduate of Harvard
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University
College London.
His intriguing
hypothesis that everyone possesses the extraordinary skills
of savants, is declared “startling” by Nature,
“a breakthrough that could lead to a revolution in the
way we understand… the functioning of the human brain”
by the New York Times, “brave and original”
in a New Scientist cover story, and is featured in
The Times of London, the BBC, CNN, and Barbara Walters
ABC 20/20.
Allan Snyder
is recognised for groundbreaking discoveries covering the fields
of visual neurobiology, communications, optical physics and
the mind sciences.
Dr Snyder
received the world's "foremost prize in communication and
information technology", the Marconi International Prize,
in New York city in December 2001.
He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the recipient of its
2001 Clifford Paterson Prize for "contributions which benefit
mankind."
His discoveries
in brain science are hailed in the prestigious journal Nature
as "breaking a 19th century mindset", while his advances
in physics are
described in Science magazine as a "giant step
forward" and featured in the Economist.
