Walter Pitts

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
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Walter Pitts took a non-traditional path through academia. It's not clear how to classify his relationships with other neuroscientists. I think it's fair to call McCulloch his mentor though. Do we say he was a research scientist during those years?

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Nicolas Rashevsky grad student Chicago (Physics Tree)
Norbert Wiener grad student MIT
 (Didn't graduate.)
Warren S. McCulloch research scientist
 (at Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute)
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McCulloch WS, Pitts W. (1990) A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. 1943. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 52: 99-115; discussion 7
Gesteland RC, Lettvin JY, Pitts WH. (1965) Chemical transmission in the nose of the frog. The Journal of Physiology. 181: 525-59
LETTVIN JY, PICKARD WF, MCCULLOCH WS, et al. (1964) A THEORY OF PASSIVE ION FLUX THROUGH AXON MEMBRANES. Nature. 202: 1338-9
MATURANA HR, LETTVIN JY, MCCULLOCH WS, et al. (1960) Anatomy and physiology of vision in the frog (Rana pipiens). The Journal of General Physiology. 43: 129-75
LETTVIN JY, MATURANA HR, PITTS WH, et al. (1960) Two remarks on the visual system of the frog. Afosr Tr. United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research. 60: 1-25
Maturana HR, Lettvin JY, McCulloch WS, et al. (1959) Evidence That Cut Optic Nerve Fibers in a Frog Regenerate to Their Proper Places in the Tectum. Science (New York, N.Y.). 130: 1709-10
Lettvin JY, Maturana HR, Mcculloch WS, et al. (1959) What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain Proceedings of the Ire. 47: 1940-1951
Gesteland RC, Lettvin JY, Howland B, et al. (1959) Comments on Microelectrodes Proceedings of the Ire. 47: 1856-1862
DEL CASTILLO J, LETTVIN JY, McCULLOCH WS, et al. (1957) Membrane currents in clamped vertebrate nerve. Nature. 180: 1290-1
Del Castillo J, Lettvin JY, McCulloch WS, et al. (1957) Membrane currents in clamped vertebrate nerve [28] Nature. 180: 1290-1291
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