Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish medical researcher, Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate, campaigner for human rights
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Emíl Wíesel (1866–1943), Russian-German painter and arts curator
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Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Hungarian-American novelist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, philosopher, humanitarian, and Holocaust survivor
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The idea that God must uphold his end of the first commandment has been a subject of works such as Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God (1979), made in response to the atrocities Wiesel witnessed at Auschwitz.
The faculty has included many distinguished pedagogues and artists, including Paul Ellison, Robert Masters, Charles Avsharian, Owen Carman, Gerardo Ribeiro, Patricia McCarty, and Uzi Wiesel.
Current collaborations include flautist Abbie de Quant (since 1970), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio with violinist Itzhak Segev and cellist Louis Rowen, as well as ensembles with several vocalists among whom Bat-Sheva Zeisler.
A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac, forward by Elie Wiesel (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) ISBN 0-374-52023-2, ISBN 978-0-374-52023-6; classic photographs of Eastern European Jewish life from the 1930s
This was a precursor to the work of Hubel and Wiesel on visual receptive fields in the visual cortex.