It was the grueling qualifying exam for his doctorate in theoretical physics in the 1970's that sparked Terry Sejnowski's interest in neuroscience. The exam "takes a week in which every morning or afternoon is a different topic in physics," he says. "Cramming all of physics into your head for that week is so concentrated that you need to be able to take a break and do something else. That summer I started to read books about the brain."
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Physics Meets the Brain
How Terry Sejnowski went from a grad student in theoretical physics to computational neuroscience's White Knight.
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