Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel
The neuroscientist who showed what different brains are actually made of.
Neuroscientist, researcher, writer, educator...
A true native of Rio de Janeiro, Suzana Herculano-Houzel graduated from UFRJ, Case Western Reserve University, and Paris VI University. A former professor at UFRJ, she now works at Vanderbilt University in the United States. With the isotropic fractionator method, she was the first to actually count how many neurons the human brain has.
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