Viktor Hamburger

Research.com Recognitions

• 1990 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For pioneering the study of neuroembryology, and especially the landmark contributions to understanding neural cell death, nerve growth factor, and the developmental program for motor behavior
• 1989 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his steadfast work that led to the discovery and understanding of normally occurring neuronal death, nerve growth factor, and competitive relationships in the vertebrate nervous system.", Presented by President Bush at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1989.
• 1985 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 1983 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
• 1953 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1949 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo

  Viktor Hamburger;Howard L. Hamilton

  24229
  Citations

• Proliferation, differentiation and degeneration in the spinal ganglia of the chick embryo under normal and experimental conditions.

  Viktor Hamburger;Rita Levi-Montalcini

  1420
  Citations

• Selective growth stimulating effects of mouse sarcoma on the sensory and sympathetic nervous system of the chick embryo.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  1304
  Citations

• Embryonic vertebrate central nervous system: Revised terminology

  Jay B. Angevine;David Bodian;Alfred J. Coulombre;Mac V. Edds

  1013
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• Cell death in the development of the lateral motor column of the chick embryo.

  Viktor Hamburger

  943
  Citations

• In vitro experiments on the effects of mouse sarcomas 180 and 37 on the spinal and sympathetic ganglia of the chick embryo.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini;Hertha Meyer;Viktor Hamburger

  652
  Citations

• A NERVE GROWTH-STIMULATING FACTOR ISOLATED FROM SARCOM AS 37 AND 180.

  Stanley Cohen;Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  617
  Citations

• Reduction of the naturally occurring motor neuron loss by enlargement of the periphery

  Margaret Hollyday;Viktor Hamburger

  587
  Citations

• Neuronal death in the spinal ganglia of the chick embryo and its reduction by nerve growth factor.

  V Hamburger;JK Brunso-Bechtold;JW Yip

  552
  Citations

• The effects of wing bud extirpation on the development of the central nervous system in chick embryos

  Viktor Hamburger

  538
  Citations

• A diffusible agent of mouse sarcoma, producing hyperplasia of sympathetic ganglia and hyperneurotization of viscera in the chick embryo

  Rita Levi-Montalcini;Viktor Hamburger

  491
  Citations

• Regression versus peripheral control of differentiation in motor hypoplasia.

  Viktor Hamburger

  467
  Citations

• A manual of experimental embryology

  Viktor Hamburger

  422
  Citations

• An autoradiographic study of the formation of the lateral motor column in the chick embryo.

  Margaret Hollyday;Viktor Hamburger

  391
  Citations

• SOME ASPECTS OF THE EMBRYOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR.

  Viktor Hamburger

  366
  Citations

• Prehatching motility and hatching behavior in the chick.

  Viktor Hamburger;Ronald Oppenheim

  340
  Citations

• Experimental analysis of the dual origin of the trigeminal ganglion in the chick embryo.

  Viktor Hamburger

  334
  Citations

• Fine structure of dendritic and axonal growth cones in embryonic chick spinal cord.

  Robert P. Skoff;Viktor Hamburger

  328
  Citations

• Motility in the chick embryo in the absence of sensory input

  Viktor Hamburger;Eleanor Wenger;Ronald Oppenheim

  318
  Citations

• The mitotic patterns in the spinal cord of the chick embryo and their relation to histogenetic processes.

  Viktor Hamburger

  311
  Citations