Deciphering the mysteries of the neural code.

Dan Med J

Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Published: May 2024

This essay is dedicated to the memory of my father David Sompolinsky. As a medical student in Veterinary Medicine in Copenhagen, with the support of his professors and the Danish Resistance, David organised the rescue of 700 Danish Jews in October 1943, helping them escape Nazi persecution and find safety in Sweden.

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